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Intersensory redundancy guides attentional selectivity and perceptual learning in infancy

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Bahrick, Lorraine E., Lickliter, Robert·2000·Developmental Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0012-1649.36.2.190PMC PMC2704001
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This study assessed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis, which holds that in early infancy information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two sense modalities selectively recruits attention and facilitates perceptual differentiation more effectively than does the same information presented unimodally.Five-month-old infants' sensitivity to the amodal property of rhythm was examined in 3 experiments.Results revealed that habituation to a bimodal (auditory and visual) rhythm resulted in discrimination of a novel rhythm, whereas habituation to the same rhythm presented unimodally (auditory or visual) resulted in no evidence of discrimination.Also, temporal synchrony between the bimodal auditory and visual information was necessary for rhythm discrimination.These findings support an intersensory redundancy hypothesis and provide further evidence for the importance of redundancy for guiding and constraining early perceptual learning.The newborn infant encounters a world of objects and events that present a richly structured array of stimulation to all the senses.Recent research demonstrates that young infants are adept perceivers of this multimodal stimulation (see Lewkowicz & Lickliter, 1994;Rose & Ruff, 1987).Infants do not perceive disparate sensations through the various sense modalities; rather, they are able to select information that is meaningful and relevant to their actions and to perceive coherent, unitary multimodal events even in the first months of life.For example, 2to 5-month-old infants are able to perceive a relationship between a face and a voice on the basis of temporal synchrony, shared rhythm, and spectral information between the movements of the mouth and the timing and nature of the speech sounds (Dodd, 1979;Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1984;Mendelson & Ferland, 1982).By 5-7 months, infants can also match faces and voices on the basis of the age and gender of the speaker as well as the speaker's affective expression (Bahrick, Netto, & Hernandez-Reif, 1998;Walker-Andrews, 1982;Walker-Andrews, Bahrick, Raglioni, & Diaz, 1991).Infants of 3-6 months are also able to match a soundtrack to the appropriate one of two objects hitting a surface on the basis of the object's substance and composition (Bahrick, 1983(Bahrick, , 1987(Bahrick, , 1988(Bahrick, , 1992)).Although there is now a solid base of data demonstrating that infants are adept perceivers of multimodal stimulation across a variety of natural events, as yet little is currently known about how infants accomplish this.How and on what basis do infants begin to parse, perceive, and derive meaning from the flux of multimodal stimulation in a manner that lays a foundation for the perceptual world of the adult?Consistent with Gibson's (1969) invariant detection view, Bahrick (1992, 1994;Bahrick & Pickens, 1994) has proposed that amodal information initially guides this developmental process.Amodal information is information that is not specific to a particular sense modality

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  1. Bahrick, 1994, Amodal relations: The basis for intermodal perception and learning., 205
  2. Lewkowicz, 1994, Development of intersensory perception in human infants., 165
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Authors
Bahrick, L. E., & Lickliter, R.
Affiliations
  • Florida International University (US)
  • Virginia Tech (US)
Corresponding author
Bahrick, Lorraine E.
ORCID
Bahrick, Lorraine E.
Venue
Developmental Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2000
Volume
36
Issue
2
Pages
190-201
ISSN
  • 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0599
DOI
10.1037/0012-1649.36.2.190
PMC
PMC2704001
OpenAlex
W4252875053
Cited by
554
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44
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FWCI
15.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5k02mh001210-04, 5r01mh048949-08)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (KO2 MH01210, R01 MH48949)
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD025669, R01HD25669)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Keywords
rhythm discrimination, temporal synchronization, bimodal presentation, perceptual learning, selective attention, infant perception, multisensory perception, amodal perception, perceptual differentiation, early infancy, cross-modal correspondence, audiovisual integration
MeSH terms
Attention, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Infant, Learning, Male, Models, Psychological, Music, Visual Perception

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