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Description: Multisensory representations of peripersonal space play important roles in our interactions with objects and other humans. Despite their importance, little consideration has been given to their ontogeny. We explored the developmental origins of the ability to build spatiotemporally coherent links between dynamic visual stimuli moving in peripersonal space and tactile stimuli directly perceived on the body. While postnatal multisensory experience most likely plays an important role in infants' integration of visual and tactile events, it seems reasonable to hypothesise that the mechanisms supporting this ability would begin to develop early in life.