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creators_name: Petrini, K
creators_name: Remark, A
creators_name: Smith, L
creators_name: Nardini, M
title: When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal.
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D08
keywords: Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Age Factors, Attention, Auditory Perception, Child, Child Development, Female, Humans, Male, Physical Stimulation, Size Perception, Touch Perception
note: © 2014 The Authors. Developmental Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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abstract: When visual information is available, human adults, but not children, have been shown to reduce sensory uncertainty by taking a weighted average of sensory cues. In the absence of reliable visual information (e.g. extremely dark environment, visual disorders), the use of other information is vital. Here we ask how humans combine haptic and auditory information from childhood. In the first experiment, adults and children aged 5 to 11 years judged the relative sizes of two objects in auditory, haptic, and non-conflicting bimodal conditions. In , different groups of adults and children were tested in non-conflicting and conflicting bimodal conditions. In , adults reduced sensory uncertainty by integrating the cues optimally, while children did not. In , adults and children used similar weighting strategies to solve audio-haptic conflict. These results suggest that, in the absence of visual information, optimal integration of cues for discrimination of object size develops late in childhood.
date: 2014-05
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12127
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
verified: verified_manual
elements_source: PubMed
elements_id: 950258
doi: 10.1111/desc.12127
lyricists_name: Nardini, Marko
lyricists_name: Petrini, Karin
lyricists_id: MNARD61
lyricists_id: KPETR59
full_text_status: public
publication: Developmental Science
volume: 17
number: 3
pagerange: 376 - 387
event_location: England
issn: 1363-755X
citation:        Petrini, K;    Remark, A;    Smith, L;    Nardini, M;      (2014)    When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal.                   Developmental Science , 17  (3)   376 - 387.    10.1111/desc.12127 <https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12127>.       Green open access   
 
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