Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors
Sensory integration and the ability to discriminate target objects from distractors are critical to survival, yet the developmental trajectories of these abilities are unknown. This study investigated developmental changes in 9- (n=18) and 11-year-old (n=20) children, adolescents (n=19) and adults (...
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| author | Harriet eDowning Ayla eBarutchu Sheila Gillard Crewther |
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| description | Sensory integration and the ability to discriminate target objects from distractors are critical to survival, yet the developmental trajectories of these abilities are unknown. This study investigated developmental changes in 9- (n=18) and 11-year-old (n=20) children, adolescents (n=19) and adults (n=22) using an audiovisual object discrimination task with uni- and multisensory distractors. Reaction times (RTs) were slower with visual/audiovisual distractors, and although all groups demonstrated facilitation of multisensory RTs in these conditions, children’s and adolescents’ responses corresponded to fewer race model violations than adults’, suggesting protracted maturation of multisensory processes. Multisensory facilitation could not be explained by changes in RT variability, suggesting that tests of race model violations may still have theoretical value at least for familiar multisensory stimuli. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68f4c79240634153ba36540dcec2e9002022-12-22T02:38:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-01-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01559124905Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractorsHarriet eDowning0Ayla eBarutchu1Sheila Gillard Crewther2La Trobe UniversityUniversity of OxfordLa Trobe UniversitySensory integration and the ability to discriminate target objects from distractors are critical to survival, yet the developmental trajectories of these abilities are unknown. This study investigated developmental changes in 9- (n=18) and 11-year-old (n=20) children, adolescents (n=19) and adults (n=22) using an audiovisual object discrimination task with uni- and multisensory distractors. Reaction times (RTs) were slower with visual/audiovisual distractors, and although all groups demonstrated facilitation of multisensory RTs in these conditions, children’s and adolescents’ responses corresponded to fewer race model violations than adults’, suggesting protracted maturation of multisensory processes. Multisensory facilitation could not be explained by changes in RT variability, suggesting that tests of race model violations may still have theoretical value at least for familiar multisensory stimuli.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01559/fullaudiovisualdevelopmentmultisensoryfacilitationrace modelvariance |
| spellingShingle | Harriet eDowning Ayla eBarutchu Sheila Gillard Crewther Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors Frontiers in Psychology audiovisual development multisensory facilitation race model variance |
| title | Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| title_full | Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| title_fullStr | Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| title_short | Developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| title_sort | developmental trends in the facilitation of multisensory objects with distractors |
| topic | audiovisual development multisensory facilitation race model variance |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01559/full |
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