Intrasensory and intersensory perception of temporal sequences during infancy.

Allen, T. W.; Walker, Karen; Symonds, Laura L.; Marcell, Michael M.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.13.3.225

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“…Infants also detect amodal information specifying affective expression across the visual and acoustic stimulation of speech (Walker-Andrews, 1997) as well as information specifying the age and gender of a speaker (Bahrick, Netto, & Hernandez-Reif, 1998; Walker-Andrews, Bahrick, Raglioni, & Diaz, 1991). In perceiving moving objects, infants detect amodal temporal information specifying the substance and composition of an object across the sights and sounds of its impacts against a surface (Bahrick, 1983(Bahrick, , 1988(Bahrick, , 1992 as well as the common tempo of action and rhythm (Allen, Walker, Symonds, & Marcell, 1977;Lewkowicz, 2000;Spelke, 1979;Spelke, Born, & Chu, 1983). These experiments demonstrate that within the first 6 months of postnatal development, infants are skilled perceivers of amodal information uniting stimulation across sensory modalities.…”

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Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3‐month‐old infants

Bahrick

Flom

Lickliter

2002

Developmental Psychobiology

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L. Bahrick and R. Lickliter (2000) proposed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis that states that information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two or more sensory modalities selectively recruits infant attention and facilitates perceptual learning more effectively than does the same information presented unimodally. In support of this view, they found that 5-month-old infants were able to differentiate between two complex rhythms when they were presented bimodally, but not unimodally. The present study extended our test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis to younger infants and to a different amodal property. Three-month-olds' sensitivity to the amodal property of tempo was investigated. Results replicated and extended those of Bahrick and Lickliter, demonstrating that infants could discriminate a change in tempo following bimodal, but not unimodal, habituation. It appears that when infants are first learning to differentiate an amodal stimulus property, discrimination is facilitated by intersensory redundancy and attenuated under conditions of unimodal stimulation.

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Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3‐month‐old infants

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Lickliter

2002

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Infants also appear to possess some of these abilities. For example, it has been reported that infants can detect auditory-visual equivalence on the basis of intensity (Lewkowicz & Turkewitz, 1980), rate (Spelke, 1979), rhythm (Allen, Walker, Symonds, & Marcell, 1977;Mendelson & Ferland, 1982), linguistic content (Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1982), and synchrony (Bahrick, 1987;Lewkowicz, in press) as early as 3-4 months of age, and on the basis of duration/synchrony by 6 months of age (Lewkowicz, 1986).…”

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Infants’ responsiveness to the auditory and visual attributes of a sounding/moving stimulus

Lewkowicz

1992

Perception & Psychophysics

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Responses to unimodal and multimodal attributes of a compound auditory/visual stimulus were investigated in 4-, 6-, 8-, and lO-month-old infants. First, infants were habituated to a compound stimulus consisting of a visual stimulus that moved up and down on a video monitor and a sound that occurred each time the visual stimulus reversed direction at the bottom. Once each infant met a habituation criterion, a series of test trials was administered to assess responsiveness to the components of the compound stimulus. Response was defined as the total duration of visual fixation in each trial. In the two unimodal test trials, the rate at which the component was presented was changed while the rate of the other component remained the same, whereas in the bimodal test trial the rate of both components was changed simultaneously. Results indicated that infants at each age successfully discriminated the bimodal and the two unimodal changes and that regression to the mean did not account for the results. Results also showed that disruption of the temporal relationship that accompanied the change in rate in the two unimodal test trials was also discriminable, but rate changes appeared to playa greater role in responsiveness than did synchrony changes. Considered together with results from similar prior studies, the current results are consistent with the modality appropriateness hypothesis in showing that discrimination of temporal changes in the auditory and visual modalities is dependent on the specialization of the sensory modalities.

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“…The perception of an invariant relationship between audio and visual stimulation emerges at very precocious ages. At 4-5 months infants are able to detect synchrony between visual and acoustic stimuli [40,41], to make associations between sounds and changes in the direction of a movement [42,43], to match faces and voices (e.g., [44,45]) and to recognize similarities between the common rhythmic structures, tempo, and duration of auditory and visual events ( [46][47][48]; see [49], for a review). Within this cross-modal context it is also well known that humans spontaneously describe auditory pitch spatially (e.g., [50][51][52]).…”

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Matching Visual and Acoustic Mirror Forms

Bianchi

Burro

Pezzola³

et al. 2017

Symmetry

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of the ability to recognize three mirror forms in visual and acoustic tasks: inversion (reflection on a horizontal axis), retrograde (reflection on a vertical axis) and retrograde inversion (reflection on both horizontal and vertical axes). Dynamic patterns consisting of five tones in succession in the acoustic condition and five square dots in succession in the visual condition were presented to 180 non-musically expert participants. In a yes/no task, they were asked to ascertain whether a comparison stimulus represented the "target" transformation (i.e., inversion, retrograde or retrograde inversion). Three main results emerged. Firstly, the fact that symmetry pertaining to a vertical axis is the most easily perceived does not only apply to static visual configurations (as found in previous literature) but also applies to dynamic visual configurations and acoustic stimuli where it is in fact even more marked. Secondly, however, differences emerged between the facility with which the three mirror forms were recognized in the acoustic and visual tasks. Thirdly, when the five elements in the stimulus were not of the same duration and therefore a rhythmic structure emerged, performance improved not only in the acoustic but also (even more significantly) in the visual task.

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Intrasensory and intersensory perception of temporal sequences during infancy.

Cited by 76 publications

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Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3‐month‐old infants

Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3‐month‐old infants

Infants’ responsiveness to the auditory and visual attributes of a sounding/moving stimulus

Matching Visual and Acoustic Mirror Forms

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