Journal article
Multisensory object perception in infancy: 4-month-olds perceive a mistuned harmonic as a separate auditory and visual object
Abstract
Infants learn to use auditory and visual information to organize the sensory world into identifiable objects with particular locations. Here we use a behavioural method to examine infants' use of harmonicity cues to auditory object perception in a multisensory context. Sounds emitted by different objects sum in the air and the auditory system must figure out which parts of the complex waveform belong to different sources (auditory objects). One …
Authors
Smith NA; Folland NA; Martinez DM; Trainor LJ
Journal
Cognition, Vol. 164, , pp. 1–7
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.016
ISSN
0010-0277