Bahrick L E, Lickliter R
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami 33199, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2000 Mar;36(2):190-201. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.36.2.190.
This study assessed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis, which holds that in early infancy information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two sense modalities selectively recruits attention and facilitates perceptual differentiation more effectively than does the same information presented unimodally. Five-month-old infants' sensitivity to the amodal property of rhythm was examined in 3 experiments. Results revealed that habituation to a bimodal (auditory and visual) rhythm resulted in discrimination of a novel rhythm, whereas habituation to the same rhythm presented unimodally (auditory or visual) resulted in no evidence of discrimination. Also, temporal synchrony between the bimodal auditory and visual information was necessary for rhythm discrimination. These findings support an intersensory redundancy hypothesis and provide further evidence for the importance of redundancy for guiding and constraining early perceptual learning.
本研究评估了一种跨感觉冗余假说,该假说认为,在婴儿早期,以两种感觉模态冗余且同步呈现的信息比单模态呈现的相同信息更能有效地吸引注意力并促进感知分化。在3项实验中考察了5个月大婴儿对节奏这一非模态属性的敏感性。结果显示,对双模态(听觉和视觉)节奏的习惯化导致对新节奏的辨别,而对单模态(听觉或视觉)呈现的相同节奏的习惯化则没有辨别迹象。此外,双模态听觉和视觉信息之间的时间同步对于节奏辨别是必要的。这些发现支持了跨感觉冗余假说,并为冗余在引导和限制早期感知学习中的重要性提供了进一步的证据。