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Infants' visual‐proprioceptive intermodal perception with imperfect contingency information
Author(s) -
Schmuckler Mark A.,
Jewell Derryn T.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.20214
Subject(s) - contingency , psychology , perception , cognitive psychology , context (archaeology) , perfect information , imperfect , movement (music) , communication , spatial contextual awareness , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience , geography , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical economics , aesthetics , linguistics , archaeology
Two experiments explored 5‐month‐old infants' recognition of self‐movement in the context of imperfect contingencies between felt and seen movement. Previous work has shown that infants can discriminate a display of another child's movements from an on‐line video display of their own movements, even when featural information is removed. These earlier findings were extended by demonstrating self versus other discrimination when the visual information for movement was an unrelated object (a fluorescent mobile) directly attached to the child's leg, thus producing imperfect spatial and temporal contingency information. In contrast, intermodal recognition failed when the mobile was indirectly attached to infants' legs, thus eliminating spatial contingencies altogether and further weakening temporal contingencies. Together, these studies reveal that even imperfect contingency information can drive intermodal perception, given appropriate levels of spatial and temporal contingency information. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 387–398, 2007.