Mendelson M J, Ferland M B
Child Dev. 1982 Aug;53(4):1022-7.
4-month-old infants were presented a 60-sec recording of a syllable repeated in either a regular or an irregular rhythm. The rhythms contained the same time intervals, but the pattern of the intervals differed. Following the sound, the infants were shown a 90-sec silent film of a puppet opening and closing its mouth, either in the familiar rhythm or in a novel rhythm. Infants receiving the regular sound watched the film more than infants receiving the irregular sound, a finding that was explained in terms of a transmodal "positive contrast" effect. More important, infants who saw the puppet move in a novel rhythm watched the film longer (measured in total looking and mean look) than infants who saw it move in a familiar rhythm. This is the first demonstration of auditory-visual transfer of temporal information in infants as young as 4 months.
向4个月大的婴儿播放一段时长60秒的音节录音，该音节以规则或不规则节奏重复。这些节奏包含相同的时间间隔，但间隔模式不同。声音播放结束后，向婴儿展示一段时长90秒的无声影片，影片中一个木偶以熟悉的节奏或新颖的节奏张嘴闭嘴。听到规则声音的婴儿观看影片的时间比听到不规则声音的婴儿更长，这一发现可以用跨模态的“正对比”效应来解释。更重要的是，看到木偶以新颖节奏移动的婴儿观看影片的时间（以总注视时间和平均注视时间衡量）比看到木偶以熟悉节奏移动的婴儿更长。这是首次证明4个月大的婴儿存在视听时间信息转移。
