Intermodal Person Schema in Infancy [electronic resource] : Perception Within a Common Auditory-Visual Space / Michael Lewis and Laurie Hurowitz.
This study was designed to test two alternate hypotheses regarding the meaning of increased lateral head movements in infants during experiments in which the mothers' voices were displaced from their faces. One interpretation is that the lateral looking responses of the infants are attributable...
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| Summary: | This study was designed to test two alternate hypotheses regarding the meaning of increased lateral head movements in infants during experiments in which the mothers' voices were displaced from their faces. One interpretation is that the lateral looking responses of the infants are attributable to maturational effects on the infants' physiological capacity to orient toward the lateral sound stimulus during the displacement condition. The second interpretation is that violations of the intermodal person schema occurred when the infant was presented with displaced face-voice pairs, which resulted in increased looking, head turning, or general exploration. A sample of 7 one-month-old and 10 four-month-old full-term, home-reared Caucasian infants of both sexes were tested individually. There were four general experimental conditions: (1) normal: either mother or adult female stranger presented to the infant with her voice transmitted through the center speaker; (2) displacement: mother or stranger presented with her voice transmitted through a side speaker; (3) discrepancy: either mother or stranger presented with the voice of the other transmitted throught the center speaker and (4) control: face or voice of mother or stranger presented alone. Results were interpreted as supporting a differential pattern of responding by infants as early as the first month of life to violation of the person schema through distortion in the visual-auditory organization of that schema. (JMB) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED145935. Contract Number: BRSG-G-5-S07-RR-05729-01. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (Boston, Massachusetts, April 13-16, 1977) ; Project supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, Div. of Research Resources. |
| Physical Description: | 12 p. |