Broadbent, Hannah and Osborne, Tamsin and Kirkham, Natasha Z. and Mareschal, Denis (2020) Touch and look: the role of visual-haptic cues for categorical learning in children. Infant and Child Development 29 (2), e2168. ISSN 1099-0917.
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Abstract
Benefits of synchronous presentation of multisensory compared to unisensory cues are well established. However, the generality of such findings to children’s learning with visual and haptic sensory cue pairings is unclear. Children aged six to ten years (N=180) participated in a novel table-top category learning paradigm with visual, haptic or visuo-haptic informative cues. The results indicated that combinations of complimentary visual and haptic cues facilitated learning above unisensory visual cues only in 8-year-old children. Primarily, however, haptic information was found to dominate children’s category learning across ages, particularly in the youngest children (six-year-olds), even with equal discriminability of haptic and visual exemplars. These findings suggest developmental changes in the ability to effectively combine un-related visual and haptic information for categorical learning. Implications for the use of non-pertinent visuohaptic cues in learning tasks within educational settings at different ages, and in particular the dominance of haptic stimuli for children’s learning are discussed.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the article, which has been published in final form at the link above. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Natasha Kirkham |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2019 13:00 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/29929 |
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