Space Perception in Early Infancy: Perception within a Common Auditory-Visual Space
- 11 June 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 172 (3988), 1161-1163
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.172.3988.1161
Abstract
Infants as young as 30 days become visibly distressed upon observing their mothers speak to them while the mother's voice is displaced in space. Their ability to perceive this discrepancy indicates that infant perception occurs within a space that is common to the visual and auditory modes.Keywords
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