Perceiving size through sound in sighted and visually impaired children

Associations between sensory features of different natures are defined as crossmodal correspondences. In the context size perception, low pitch sound frequencies often associated with larger objects and high smaller objects. Here we investigate such correspondences in sighted visually-impaired children. Experiment 1, after listening to sounds (250–5000 Hz pure tones), children aged 6–11 years were asked draw a circle "as big was". 2, 6–14 who blind or had vision performed similar task. accordance previous research, observed that drawn depends on participants’ age confirm presence pitch-size associations children, influenced by residual vision, suggesting an anchoring perception level vision. These results reveal novel dynamics underlying advancing visual loss emergence compensatory mechanisms childhood.