Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 504-509Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00794.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD048733-03, R01-HD048733, R01 HD040432, R01 HD048733, R01 HD040432-07, R01-HD40432] Funding Source: Medline
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By 7 months of age, infants are able to learn rules based on the abstract relationships between stimuli ( Marcus et al., 1999), but they are better able to do so when exposed to speech than to some other classes of stimuli. In the current experiments we ask whether multimodal stimulus information will aid younger infants in identifying abstract rules. We habituated 5-month-olds to simple abstract patterns (ABA or ABB) instantiated in coordinated looming visual shapes and speech sounds (Experiment 1), shapes alone (Experiment 2), and speech sounds accompanied by uninformative but coordinated shapes (Experiment 3). Infants showed evidence of rule learning only in the presence of the informative multimodal cues. We hypothesize that the additional evidence present in these multimodal displays was responsible for the success of younger infants in learning rules, congruent with both a Bayesian account and with the Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis.
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