CPSY 4343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pacifier, Crossmodal, White Noise
12 May 2020
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Perhaps, not recognition of similarities across modalities, but rather neonatal synesthesia. Young infants fail to keep track of the modality by which info is acquired, so generalize from one modality to another. By 3 months, start to keep track, so don"t generalize. At a later age (maybe 8 months), infants recognize that there are multiple ways of learning about the same object, so again generalize x-modalities. If newborns heard a burst of white noise, then look longer at the darkest square. Too much auditory stimulation makes them want to look at something that will require little stimulation to compensate. A form of cross-modal matching, but looks as if infants are compensating for the intensity of the light by choosing the least intense visual stimulation. Perhaps: newborns and very young babies are seeking an optimal level of stimulation, summed across modalities, failing to appreciate differences. Maurer"s two principles (akin to rules babies look by)
