Comparing spontaneous cross-modal magnitude matching in infants and adults
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It has been proposed that young infants, in contrast to adults, base similarities in stimuli across modalities on quantitative aspects rather than on qualitative aspects. To investigate the spontaneous quantitative matching across modalities in adults and infants, 12 adults and 32 infants watched film sequences while their looking behavior was recorded using an eye-tracker. The film sequences depicted three objects that changed in size (visual magnitude) over time while brown noise was played, with intensity matching the size envelope of the objects to different degrees. The results show that adults to a greater extent attend to visual prominence than do the infants.
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