Cross modal perception

Cross modal perception

1. Integrate info from different senses

   • Sound of voice with moving lips

2. Morrongiello

   • Associate toy with sound when they're in same place - co-location
     • Not when in different places - dislocation

3. Slater et al

   • 2 day, visual & sound stimuli either...
     • a) irrespective of whether child looking at stimulus
       • b) sound only made when child looking - synchronised
         • Association only learned in b)

4. Co-location & synchrony allow association between diff things that belong together

   • By 3 mth learn relationship between a face and their voice
     • Develop more understanding of cross modal relationships
       • Objects & what they're called

5. Multisensory experience

   • Early research used static stimuli, later more dynamic.
     • More naturalistic, ecovalidity
       • Suggests babies prepared to deal with dynamic perceptual experiences

6. Vestibular system - sense of body position, balance

   • Kinaesthetic feedback - sense of where body parts are
     • Develops before birth, thumb sucking in womb
       • Butterworth- 15-34 mth fall backwards if wall moves towards them & vice versa
         • Visual cliff, only avoided by crawling infants, not necessary prior.