Bimodal Perception in Infancy: Response to Auditory-Visual Incongruity.

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen

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ERIC Number: EJ168253

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Publication Date: 1977

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Bimodal Perception in Infancy: Response to Auditory-Visual Incongruity

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen

Child Development, 48, 3, 820-827, Sep 77

This study tested the assimilation of an auditory-visual stimulus configuration in 32 infants aged 15 to 16 weeks. The infants' discrimination of matched and mismatched auditory-visual stimuli indicated that infants by 4 months of age are capable of constructing bimodal schemata. (JMB)

Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Learning Modalities, Perception, Research, Visual Stimuli

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