Walker, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-4844-807X, Bremner, James Gavin ORCID: 0000-0001-8068-7057, Lunghi, Marco, Dolscheid, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0001-9104-6386, Barba, Beatrice D. and Simion, Francesca (2018). Newborns are sensitive to the correspondence between auditory pitch and visuospatial elevation. Dev. Psychobiol., 60 (2). S. 216 - 224. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1098-2302

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Abstract

Amodal (redundant) and arbitrary cross-sensory feature associations involve the context-insensitive mapping of absolute feature values across sensory domains. Cross-sensory associations of a different kind, known as correspondences, involve the context-sensitive mapping of relative feature values. Are such correspondences in place at birth (like amodal associations), or are they learned from subsequently experiencing relevant feature co-occurrences in the world (like arbitrary associations)? To decide between these two possibilities, human newborns (median age=44hr) watched animations in which two balls alternately rose and fell together in space. The pitch of an accompanying sound rose and fell either congruently with this visual change (pitch rising and falling as the balls moved up and down), or incongruently (pitch rising and falling as the balls moved down and up). Newborns' looking behavior was sensitive to this congruence, providing the strongest indication to date that cross-sensory correspondences can be in place at birth.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Walker, PeterUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-4844-807XUNSPECIFIED
Bremner, James GavinUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-8068-7057UNSPECIFIED
Lunghi, MarcoUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dolscheid, SarahUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-9104-6386UNSPECIFIED
Barba, Beatrice D.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Simion, FrancescaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-195170
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21603
Journal or Publication Title: Dev. Psychobiol.
Volume: 60
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 216 - 224
Date: 2018
Publisher: WILEY
Place of Publication: HOBOKEN
ISSN: 1098-2302
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
CROSS-SENSORY CORRESPONDENCES; INTERMODAL PERCEPTION; PREVERBAL INFANTS; BIOLOGICAL MOTION; PREFERENCE; LOCALIZATION; SYNAESTHESIA; OBJECTS; COMMON; FACESMultiple languages
Developmental Biology; PsychologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19517

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