| Abstract: | In 2 experiments with 32 4-mo-olds, it was found that Ss could perceive bimodally specified events. They responded to relationships between optic and acoustic stimulation that carried information about an object. Infants did this by detecting the temporal synchrony of an object's sounds and its optically specified impacts. They were sensitive both to the common tempo and to the simultaneity of such sounds and visible impacts. Findings support the view that intermodal perception depends at least in part on the detection of invariant relationships in patterns of light and sound. (22 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
