ABSTRACT

Since birth, infants develop the ability to perceive a wide range of intersensory relations among various kinds of amodal temporal information. This study addresses the development of the ability to perceive duration-based intersensory relations. Three groups of infants, four, seven and 10 months old, participated in two trials of an intersensory 5preference task that used two audiovisual stimuli showing a woman executing two performances — with characteristics similar to the way adults interact with infants — consisting of sequences of sound-movement/silence-stillness of varying durations. The results show that infants at all three ages recognize the duration-based intersensory relation; however, recognition is expressed in different ways at each age according to the trial and the number of eye fixations recorded. These results are discussed in terms of the development of the ability to recognize duration-based intersensory relations and its relationship to between-subjects development.

摘要

自出生以来，婴儿就发展出感知各种非模态时间信息之间的广泛感觉关系的能力。本研究探讨了感知基于持续时间的感官间关系的能力的发展。三组婴儿，分别为 4 个月、7 个月和 10 个月大，参与了两项感官 5 偏好任务试验，该任务使用两个视听刺激，显示一名妇女执行两项表演——其特征类似于成人与婴儿互动的方式——由声音序列组成-不同持续时间的运动/沉默-静止。结果表明，所有三个年龄段的婴儿都能识别基于持续时间的感觉间关系；然而，根据试验和记录的注视次数，在每个年龄阶段的认可度会有所不同。