Semantic congruency and the (reversed) Colavita effect in children and adults

Autor: Claudia Wille, Mirjam Ebersbach
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
multisensory processing
genetic structures
Adolescent
visual dominance
semantic congruency
media_common.quotation_subject
auditory dominance
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory system
Stimulus (physiology)
Audiology
Experimentelle Psychologie
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Discrimination
Psychological

Visueller Reiz
Entwicklungspsychologie
Perception
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Visual dominance
Attention
Wahrnehmung
Child
media_common
05 social sciences
Semantics
colavita effect
Sound
Acoustic Stimulation
Akustischer Reiz
Female
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Photic Stimulation
Zdroj: Journal of experimental child psychology. 141
ISSN: 1096-0457
Popis: When presented with auditory, visual, or bimodal audiovisual stimuli in a discrimination task, adults tend to ignore the auditory component in bimodal stimuli and respond to the visual component only (i.e., Colavita visual dominance effect). The same is true for older children, whereas young children are dominated by the auditory component of bimodal audiovisual stimuli. This suggests a change of sensory dominance during childhood. The aim of the current study was to investigate, in three experimental conditions, whether children and adults show sensory dominance when presented with complex semantic stimuli and whether this dominance can be modulated by stimulus characteristics such as semantic (in)congruency, frequency of bimodal trials, and color information. Semantic (in)congruency did not affect the magnitude of the auditory dominance effect in 6-year-olds or the visual dominance effect in adults, but it was a modulating factor of the visual dominance in 9-year-olds (Conditions 1 and 2). Furthermore, the absence of color information (Condition 3) did not affect auditory dominance in 6-year-olds and hardly affected visual dominance in adults, whereas the visual dominance in 9-year-olds disappeared. Our results suggest that (a) sensory dominance in children and adults is not restricted to simple lights and sounds, as used in previous research, but can be extended to semantically meaningful stimuli and that (b) sensory dominance is more robust in 6-year-olds and adults than in 9-year-olds, implying a transitional stage around this age.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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