Cross modal perception

Integrate info from different senses
1. Sound of voice with moving lips
Morrongiello
1. Associate toy with sound when they're in same place - co-location
  1. Not when in different places - dislocation
Slater et al
1. 2 day, visual & sound stimuli either...
  1. a) irrespective of whether child looking at stimulus
    1. b) sound only made when child looking - synchronised
      1. Association only learned in b)
Co-location & synchrony allow association between diff things that belong together
1. By 3 mth learn relationship between a face and their voice
  1. Develop more understanding of cross modal relationships
    1. Objects & what they're called
Multisensory experience
1. Early research used static stimuli, later more dynamic.
  1. More naturalistic, ecovalidity
    1. Suggests babies prepared to deal with dynamic perceptual experiences
Vestibular system - sense of body position, balance
1. Kinaesthetic feedback - sense of where body parts are
  1. Develops before birth, thumb sucking in womb
    1. Butterworth- 15-34 mth fall backwards if wall moves towards them & vice versa
      1. Visual cliff, only avoided by crawling infants, not necessary prior.

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