Perception of visual-tactile colocation in the first year of life.

Freier, Livia; Mason, Luke; Bremner, Andrew

doi:10.1037/dev0000160

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“…Freier et al. (), in their study of visual‐tactile processing which used a similar protocol to that presented here, report that both 6‐ and 10‐month‐old infants preferred to look at their hands during the incongruent trials.…”

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“…Our preferred explanation of the pattern of visual preferences observed in the present study is developed from a proposal made by Freier et al. () in relation to their findings with 6‐month‐old infants’ ability to detect visual‐tactile colocation. Freier et al.…”

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“…To this purpose we adapted a method recently used by Freier et al. () to investigate infants’ perception of visual‐tactile colocation. This method examines whether infants show a spontaneous visual preference for spatially congruent or incongruent crossmodal stimulus pairs presented on the hands.…”

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“…Where attention has been paid to the development of crossmodal spatial perception, this has tended to focus on infants' sensitivity to auditory-visual colocation (although see recent studies on visual-tactile colocation by Freier, Mason, & Bremner, 2016, Filippetti et al, 2013and Filippetti, Orioli, Johnson, & Farroni, 2015). Crossmodal orienting of vision to sounds is not a basic innate function.…”

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“…Here we report findings of two experiments in which we examined whether 6-month-old (Experiment 1) and 4-month-old (Experiment 2) infants were able to distinguish between occasions where auditory and tactile sensations presented synchronously on the hands occur in the same or different location(s) (i.e., whether they were able to represent auditory-tactile colocation on the hands). To this purpose we adapted a method recently used by Freier et al (2016) to investigate infants' perception of visual-tactile colocation. This method examines whether infants show a spontaneous visual preference for spatially congruent or incongruent crossmodal stimulus pairs presented on the hands.…”

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Sensitivity to auditory‐tactile colocation in early infancy

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Akkunt

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Developmental Science

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An ability to detect the common location of multisensory stimulation is essential for us to perceive a coherent environment, to represent the interface between the body and the external world, and to act on sensory information. Regarding the tactile environment "at hand", we need to represent somatosensory stimuli impinging on the skin surface in the same spatial reference frame as distal stimuli, such as those transduced by vision and audition. Across two experiments we investigated whether 6- (n = 14; Experiment 1) and 4-month-old (n = 14; Experiment 2) infants were sensitive to the colocation of tactile and auditory signals delivered to the hands. We recorded infants' visual preferences for spatially congruent and incongruent auditory-tactile events delivered to their hands. At 6 months, infants looked longer toward incongruent stimuli, whilst at 4 months infants looked longer toward congruent stimuli. Thus, even from 4 months of age, infants are sensitive to the colocation of simultaneously presented auditory and tactile stimuli. We conclude that 4- and 6-month-old infants can represent auditory and tactile stimuli in a common spatial frame of reference. We explain the age-wise shift in infants' preferences from congruent to incongruent in terms of an increased preference for novel crossmodal spatial relations based on the accumulation of experience. A comparison of looking preferences across the congruent and incongruent conditions with a unisensory control condition indicates that the ability to perceive auditory-tactile colocation is based on a crossmodal rather than a supramodal spatial code by 6 months of age at least.

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