Infants Are Not Sensitive to Synesthetic Cross-Modality Correspondences

Lewkowicz, David J.; Minar, Nicholas J.

doi:10.1177/0956797613516011

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“…Some previous research has examined cross-modal correspondences between visual motion and pitch. For instance, ascending and descending pitch modulations are linked to preferential looking towards upwards and downwards visual movement in children (Nava et al, 2016) and infants ; but see Lewkowicz and Minar, 2014 who did not observe a difference). However, this probably reflects spatial position rather than movement per se because the same tendency is found for static visual stimuli occupying high and low positions (Ben-Artzi and Marks, 1995).…”

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Sounds Are Perceived as Louder When Accompanied by Visual Movement

2017

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In this study, we present three experiments investigating the influence of visual movement on auditory judgments.In Experiments 1 and 2, two bursts of noise were presented and participants were required to judge which was louder using a forced-choice task. One of the two bursts was accompanied by a moving disc. The other burst either was accompanied by no visual stimulus (Experiment 1) or by a static disc (Experiment 2). When the two sounds were of identical intensity participants judged the sound accompanied by the moving disc as louder. The effect was greater when auditory stimuli were of the same intensity but it was still present for mid-to-high intensities. In a third, control, experiment participants judged the pitch (and not the loudness) of a pair of tones. Here the pattern was different: there was no effect of visual motion for sounds of the same pitch, with a reversed effect for midto-high pitch differences (the effect of motion lowered the pitch). This showed no shift of response towards the interval accompanied by the moving disc. In contrast, the effect on pitch was reversed in comparison to what observed for loudness, with mid-to-high frequency sound accompanied by motion rated as lower in pitch respect to the static intervals. 2The natural tendency for moving objects to elicit sounds may lead to an automatic perceptual influence of vision over sound particularly when the latter is ambiguous. This is the first account of this novel audio-visual interaction.

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Sounds Are Perceived as Louder When Accompanied by Visual Movement

2017

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“…frequency sound combined with a visual stimulus moving toward the upper part of the screen) than in the incongruent conditions. Although other authors have failed to replicate these effects (see Lewkowicz & Minar, 2014), Dolscheid, Hunnius, Casasanto, and Majid (2014) have recently found converging evidence of a crossmodal association between ascending or descending sweeps (low-to-high or high-to-low in frequency) and spatial elevation in 3-to 4-month-old infants, and also between pitch and width. Infants preferred to look at the congruent condition (e.g., a narrow visual stimulus combined with an ascending frequency sweep) than at the incongruent one.…”

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How big is this sound? Crossmodal association between pitch and size in infants

Fernández-Prieto

Navarra

Pons

2015

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…Thus far, two studies have assessed sound symbolic matching preferences in infants younger than 6 months of age. French-learning infants between 5 and 6 months of age show no sensitivity to linguistic cross-modal correspondences using sound symbolic non-words, such as "lomo", as a match for rounded, and "tiki", as a match for angular shapes (Fort et al, 2013; also see, Lewkowicz & Minar, 2014).…”

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The development of spontaneous sound-shape matching in monolingual and bilingual infants during the first year.

Pejovic

Molnar

2017

Developmental Psychology

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Abstract:Recently it has been proposed that sensitivity to non-arbitrary relationships between speech sounds and objects potentially bootstraps lexical acquisition. However, it is currently unclear whether preverbal infants (e.g., before 6 months of age) with different linguistic profiles are sensitive to such non-arbitrary relationships. Here, we assessed 4-and 12-month-old Basque monolingual and Spanish-Basque bilingual infants' sensitivity to cross-modal correspondences between sound symbolic non-words without syllable repetition ('buba', 'kike') and drawings of rounded and angular shapes. Our findings demonstrate that sensitivity to sound-shape correspondences emerge by 12 months of age in both monolinguals and bilinguals. This finding suggests that spontaneous soundshape matching is likely to be the product of language learning and development and may not be readily available prior to the onset of word learning.

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Infants Are Not Sensitive to Synesthetic Cross-Modality Correspondences

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

Sounds Are Perceived as Louder When Accompanied by Visual Movement

Sounds Are Perceived as Louder When Accompanied by Visual Movement

How big is this sound? Crossmodal association between pitch and size in infants

The development of spontaneous sound-shape matching in monolingual and bilingual infants during the first year.

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