Crossmodal learning in newborn infants: Inferences about properties of auditory-visual events

Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Fenwick, Kimberley D.; Chance, G. W.

doi:10.1016/s0163-6383(98)90028-5

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“…However, although 4-month-olds' auditory localisation ability falls well short of adult levels, it is well established, with a minimum discriminable auditory angle of around 18 degrees (Morrongiello et al, 1990). And the fact that for static stimuli auditory-visual spatial co-location occurs in newborns (Morrongiello, Fenwick, & Chance, 1998) and older infants (Morrongiello, Fenwick, & Nutley, 1998), and that it occurs from two months upwards in the case of moving stimuli (Bremner et al in press), indicates that auditory localisation is sufficient to detect information specifying object location and change in location.…”

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Illusory contour figures are perceived as occluding contours by 4-month-old infants.

Bremner

Slater²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

Developmental Psychology

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Although 4-month-olds perceive continuity of an object's trajectory through occlusion, little is known about the information specifying an occluding surface at this age. We investigated this in 3 experiments involving 84 participants. Testing the claim that 5-month-olds are unable to perceive the Kanizsa figure as an occluding surface (Csibra, 2001), we demonstrated that 4-month-olds perceived trajectory continuity behind this figure providing its horizontal extent was small. We demonstrated that the presence of visible occluding edges or occlusion of background was insufficient to specify an occluding surface but that their combination was sufficient. Thus, beyond object deletion and accretion, both visible occluding edges and occlusion of background are necessary for perception of occluding surfaces at this age.

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Illusory contour figures are perceived as occluding contours by 4-month-old infants.

Bremner

Slater²,

Johnson³

et al. 2012

Developmental Psychology

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“…For instance, newborns are known to make saccades (Butterworth & Castillo, 1976;Wertheimer, 1961) and also head movements (Clifton, Morrongiello, Kulig, & Dowd, 1981;Muir & Field, 1979) in the direction of sounds. They also appear to expect visual and auditory stimuli to come from approximately the same location (Aronson & Rosenbloom, 1971;Morrongiello, Fenwick, & Chance, 1998). At four months of age, infants will actively orient toward visual stimuli which match an auditory input (Spelke, 1976).…”

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Spatial localization of touch in the first year of life: Early influence of a visual spatial code and the development of remapping across changes in limb position.

Bremner¹,

Mareschal²,

Lloyd‐Fox³

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Two experiments investigated infants' ability to localize tactile sensations in peripersonal space. Infants aged 10 months (Experiment 1) and 6.5 months (Experiment 2) were presented with vibrotactile stimuli unpredictably to either hand while they adopted either a crossed-or uncrossed-hands posture. At 6.5 months, infants' responses were predominantly manual, whereas at 10 months, visual orienting behavior was more evident. Analyses of the direction of the responses indicated that (a) both age groups were able to locate tactile stimuli, (b) the ability to remap visual and manual responses to tactile stimuli across postural changes develops between 6.5 and 10 months of age, and (c) the 6.5-month-olds were biased to respond manually in the direction appropriate to the more familiar uncrossed-hands posture across both postures. The authors argue that there is an early visual influence on tactile spatial perception and suggest that the ability to remap visual and manual directional responses across changes in posture develops between 6.5 and 10 months, most likely because of the experience of crossing the midline gained during this period.

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“…These findings support Gibson's differentiation view suggesting that early in development young infants pick up amodal information (e.g., synchrony), and later they differentiate more specific and/or arbitrary information, such as matching a specific color/shape object with its sound. In another study, neonates were habituated with toy-sound pairs (Sesame Street figures making a rattle sound when shaken) and then tested with the toy and/or sound in a different location (Morrongiello, Fenwick, & Chance, 1998). In that study, newborns learned the sight -sound relationship even after the object was moved to another location.…”

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Depressed mothers' newborns show longer habituation and fail to show face/voice preference

Hernandez‐Reif¹,

Field²,

Diego³

et al. 2002

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Twenty neonates of depressed and nondepressed mothers failed to show an initial visual preference for their mother's versus a female stranger's face/voice. Subsequently, infants were habituated to their mother's face and voice. Infants of depressed mothers required 1/3 more trials and almost twice as long to habituate. A posthabituation test with their mother and a different female stranger revealed a preference for the stranger's face for 9 out of the 10 newborns of the nondepressed mothers. Again, the infants of depressed mothers displayed no visual preference. These findings reveal differences in depressed mothers newborns' speed of habituation and face/voice preferences.RESUMEN: Veinte reciénnacidos, hijos de madres deprimidas y no deprimidas no lograron mostrar una inicial preferencia visual por la cara y la voz de sus madres, versus la cara y la voz de una mujer extraña. Subsecuentemente, los infantes estaban acostumbrados a la cara y la voz de su madre. Los infantes de madres deprimidas requirieron 1/3 más de intentos y casi dos veces más el tiempo para acostumbrarse. Una prueba posterior al acostumbramiento, con la madre y con una mujer extraña reveló una preferencia por la cara de la mujer extraña en 9 de cada 10 reciénnacidos, hijos de madres no deprimidas. Los hijos de madres deprimidas no mostraron una preferencia visual. Estos resultados revelan diferencias en cuanto a la rapidez del acostumbramiento y la preferencia por la voz y la cara en el caso de reciénnacidos hijos de madres deprimidas.RÉ SUMÉ : Vingt nouveaux-nés de mères déprimées et non-déprimées n'ont démontré aucune préférence visuelle initiale pour leur mère, par opposition à un visage et à une voix de femme étrangère. Par la suite, les nourrissons étaient habitués au visage et à la voix de leur mère. Il a fallu aux nourrissons de mères déprimées un tiers de plus d'essais et presque deux fois plus longtemps pour s'habituer. Un test de capacité à s'habituer à leur mère et à une femme étrangère différente a révélé une préférence pour le visage de l'étrangère chez 9 sur 10 nouveaux-nés de mères non-déprimées. A nouveau, les nourrissons de mères déprimées n'ont pas démontré de préférence visuelle. Ces résultats révèlent des différences dans la vitesse de capacité à s'habituer et de préférences visage/voix chez les nourrissons de mères déprimées.We thank the newborn infants and their mothers for participating in the study. We also thank Julia Beutler and Natasha del Pino for their assistance with data collection.

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Crossmodal learning in newborn infants: Inferences about properties of auditory-visual events

Cited by 84 publications

References 27 publications

Illusory contour figures are perceived as occluding contours by 4-month-old infants.

Illusory contour figures are perceived as occluding contours by 4-month-old infants.

Spatial localization of touch in the first year of life: Early influence of a visual spatial code and the development of remapping across changes in limb position.

Depressed mothers' newborns show longer habituation and fail to show face/voice preference

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