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A DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY OF AFFERENT‐REAFFERENT INTEGRATION
Author(s) -
CONNOLLY KEVIN,
JONES BILL
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1970.tb01242.x
Subject(s) - modal , psychology , matching (statistics) , variable (mathematics) , afferent , audiology , visual perception , asymmetry , developmental psychology , statistics , perception , mathematics , mathematical analysis , neuroscience , chemistry , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , polymer chemistry
Three groups of children, mean ages 5 yr. 4 mth., 8 yr. 3 mth., 11 yr. 1 mth., and a group of adults performed intra‐modal and cross‐modal matching tasks. The stimuli used were straight lines presented either visually or kinaesthetically. The results obtained were analysed in terms of absolute errors and variances in the two intra‐modal and two cross‐modal conditions. Performance on the tasks improved with increasing age. Intra‐modal matching was found to be more accurate and less variable than cross‐modal matching and the visual–visual condition was found to be less variable than the kinaesthetic–kinaesthetic condition. An asymmetry was observed in each group between the two cross‐modal conditions, kinaesthetic–visual performance being more accurate and less variable than visual–kinaesthetic performance. A model accounting for the developmental changes and the asymmetry between the cross‐modal conditions in terms of differences between the visual and kinaesthetic storage systems is described.