Effects of Multisensory Stimulation on Infants' Learning of Object Pattern and Trajectory

Nataşa Ganea; Caspar Addyman; Jiale Yang; Andy Bremner

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Effects of Multisensory Stimulation on Infants' Learning of Object Pattern and Trajectory

Nataşa Ganea^*, Caspar Addyman, Jiale Yang, Andy Bremner

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This study investigated whether infants encode better the features of a briefly occluded object if its movements are specified simultaneously by vision and audition than if they are not (data collected: 2017-19). Experiment 1 showed that 10-month-old infants (N=39, 22 females, White-English) notice changes in the visual pattern on the object irrespective of the stimulation received (spatiotemporally congruent audio-visual stimulation, incongruent stimulation, or visual-only; η_p²=.53). Experiment 2 (N=72, 36 female) found similar results in 6- (Test Block 1, η_p²=.13), but not 4-month-olds. Experiment 3 replicated this finding with another group of 6-month-olds (N=42, 21 females) and showed that congruent stimulation enables infants to detect changes in object trajectory (d=.56) in addition to object pattern (d=1.15), whereas incongruent stimulation hinders performance.

Original language	English
Number of pages	17
Journal	Child Development
Early online date	6 Aug 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14147
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 6 Aug 2024

Keywords

multisensory
infant
development
pattern
trajectory
learning
perception
occlusion

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