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Incidental learning in a multisensory environment across childhood
- Source :
- Developmental Science
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- Multisensory information has been shown to modulate attention in infants and facilitate learning in\ud adults, by enhancing the amodal properties of a stimulus. However, it remains unclear whether this\ud translates to learning in a multisensory environment across middle childhood, and particularly in the\ud case of incidental learning. One hundred and eighty-one children aged between 6 and 10 years\ud participated in this study using a novel Multisensory Attention Learning Task (MALT). Participants\ud were asked to respond to the presence of a target stimulus whilst ignoring distractors. Correct target\ud selection resulted in the movement of the target exemplar to either the upper left or right screen\ud quadrant, according to category membership. Category membership was defined either by visual-only,\ud auditory-only or multisensory information. As early as 6 years of age, children demonstrated greater\ud performance on the incidental categorization task following exposure to multisensory audiovisual\ud cues compared to unisensory information. These findings provide important insight into the use of\ud multisensory information in learning, and particularly on incidental category learning. Implications\ud for the deployment of multisensory learning tasks within education across development will be\ud discussed.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Adult
Male
Visual perception
Movement
Cognitive Neuroscience
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
psyc
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Concept learning
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Learning
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
10. No inequality
4. Education
05 social sciences
Amodal perception
Age Factors
Attentional control
Incidental learning
Categorization
Papers
Auditory Perception
Visual Perception
Task analysis
Female
Cues
Psychology
Photic Stimulation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1363755X and 1363755x
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Developmental Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5c6de85aa489c827610eca2eca728443