The McGurk effect in infants

被引：223

作者：

Rosenblum, LD ^{[1
]}

Schmuckler, MA ^{[1
]}

Johnson, JA ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV TORONTO,SCARBOROUGH,ON M1C 1A4,CANADA

来源：

PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 1997年 / 59卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.3758/BF03211902

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

In the McGurk effect, perceptual identification of auditory speech syllables is influenced by simultaneous presentation of discrepant visible speech syllables. This effect has been found in subjects of different ages and with various native language backgrounds. But no McGurk tests have been conducted with prelinguistic infants. In the present series of experiments, 5-month-old English-exposed infants were tested for the McGurk effect. Infants were first gaze-habituated to an audiovisual /va/. Two different dishabituation stimuli were then presented: audio /ba/-visual /va/ (perceived by adults as /va/), and audio /da/-visual/va/ (perceived by adults as /da/). The infants showed generalization from the audiovisual /va/ to the audio /ba/-visual /va/ stimulus but not to the audio /da/-visual /va/ stimulus. Follow-up experiments revealed that these generalization differences were not due to a general preference for the audio /da/-visual /va/ stimulus or to the auditory similarity of /ba/ to /va/ relative to /da/. These results suggest that the infants were visually influenced in the same way as English-speaking adults are visually influenced.

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页码：347 / 357

页数：11

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