PSYC 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pacifier, 18 Months, Sensory System
28 Feb 2017
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When we can smell food, we report that the flavour is increased (tastes better). This is perhaps why nothing tastes good when one is sick. Most objects and events are of this multi modal nature and thus have properties that are modality specific (odor, colour) but also have properties that are redundant across more than one sense modality (flavor, texture) Perceive what is common across two different sensory systems. Depending on the task, infants aged 3-9 months can show intermodal matching. Intermodal perception facilitates processing of the social world. When babies gaze at an adult"s face, how do they distinguish between positive and negative emotional expressions at: 3 or 4 months: need vocal and visual input, 5 months: voices, 7 months: faces. Is learning a property in one sense modality and then recognizing it using a different sensory system (transferring system) Meltzoff and nortons" smooth and bumpy pacifier: explored haptically by sucking. Babies are able to recognize which they used.
