Limitations on infants' response to rate-based auditory-visual relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9786573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David J Lewkowicz (0000-0001-6685-3178, New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 880-892 |
| Publication date | 1994-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.30.6.880 |
| OpenAlex | W2001653256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
Investigations of infants ’ response to temporally based auditory-visual unity specified by repetition rate and/or synchrony have yielded inconsistent results, with some studies reporting intersensory matching and others none. The purpose of the current experiments was to determine whether previous failures to obtain rate/synchrony-based intersensory matching could be overcome by providing infants with an initial opportunity to become familiar with the specific types of auditory-visual relations that they would be subsequently tested with. Across several different experiments, 4-, 6-, and 8-month-old infants were first habituated either with (a) a single, temporally concordant auditory-visual compound stimulus, (b) a single, temporally discordant compound stimulus, (c) two different, temporally concordant compounds, or (d) a silently moving visual stimulus. Following habituation, they were given an intersensory paired-preference test where they viewed two side-by-side visual stimuli moving up and down at different rates, and listened to a sound pulsing on and off at the same rate and in synchrony with the direction reversal of one of the visual stimuli. The most consistent and robust finding was a preference for the visual stimulus that moved at a novel velocity, indicating that the temporal attributes of the visual component dominated responsiveness. Only one experiment yielded limited evidence of intersensory matching; infants who were habituated with a silently moving visual stimulus preferred the sound-specified visual stimulus in the presence of the rapid auditory stimulus but did not prefer the sound-specified stimulus in the presence of the slow sound. No effects of prior short-term exposure to the various temporal features of the stimuli subsequently presented during the test phase were obtained. It is
Audiology · Auditory perception · Auditory stimuli · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Perception · Visual perception · Child and Animal Learning Development · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |