Bahrick Lorraine E, Flom Ross, Lickliter Robert
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
Dev Psychobiol. 2002 Dec;41(4):352-63. doi: 10.1002/dev.10049.
L. Bahrick and R. Lickliter (2000) proposed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis that states that information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two or more sensory modalities selectively recruits infant attention and facilitates perceptual learning more effectively than does the same information presented unimodally. In support of this view, they found that 5-month-old infants were able to differentiate between two complex rhythms when they were presented bimodally, but not unimodally. The present study extended our test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis to younger infants and to a different amodal property. Three-month-olds' sensitivity to the amodal property of tempo was investigated. Results replicated and extended those of Bahrick and Lickliter, demonstrating that infants could discriminate a change in tempo following bimodal, but not unimodal, habituation. It appears that when infants are first learning to differentiate an amodal stimulus property, discrimination is facilitated by intersensory redundancy and attenuated under conditions of unimodal stimulation.
L. 巴赫里克和R. 利克利特(2000年)提出了一种跨感觉冗余假说,该假说指出,与以单模态呈现相同信息相比,以冗余且时间同步的方式跨两种或更多感觉模态呈现的信息能更有效地选择性吸引婴儿的注意力并促进知觉学习。为支持这一观点,他们发现,5个月大的婴儿在以双模态呈现时能够区分两种复杂节奏,但以单模态呈现时则无法区分。本研究将我们对跨感觉冗余假说的测试扩展到了更小的婴儿以及一种不同的非模态属性上。研究了3个月大婴儿对节奏这种非模态属性的敏感度。结果重复并扩展了巴赫里克和利克利特的研究结果,表明婴儿在双模态而非单模态习惯化后能够辨别节奏的变化。看来,当婴儿首次学习区分一种非模态刺激属性时,跨感觉冗余会促进辨别,而在单模态刺激条件下则会减弱辨别能力。