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Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age
Developmental studies have shown that children can associate visual size with non-visual and apparently unrelated stimuli, such as pure tone frequencies. Most research to date has focused on audio-visual size associations by showing that children can associate low pure tone frequencies with large ob...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31572264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02068 |
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author | Cuturi, Luigi F. Tonelli, Alessia Cappagli, Giulia Gori, Monica |
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description | Developmental studies have shown that children can associate visual size with non-visual and apparently unrelated stimuli, such as pure tone frequencies. Most research to date has focused on audio-visual size associations by showing that children can associate low pure tone frequencies with large objects, and high pure tone frequencies with small objects. Researchers relate these findings to coarser association, i.e., less precise associations for which binary categories of stimuli are used such as in the case of low versus high frequencies and large versus small visual stimuli. This study investigates how finer, more precise, crossmodal audio-visual associations develop during primary school age (from 6 to 11 years old). To unveil such patterns, we took advantage of a range of auditory pure tones and tested how primary school children match sounds with visually presented shapes. We tested 66 children (6–11 years old) in an audio-visual matching task involving a range of pure tone frequencies. Visual stimuli were circles or angles of different sizes. We asked participants to indicate the shape matching the sound. All children associated large objects/angles with low pitch, and small objects/angles with high pitch sounds. Interestingly, older children made greater use of intermediate visual sizes to provide their responses. Indeed, audio-visual associations for finer differences between stimulus features such as size and pure tone frequencies, may develop later depending on the maturation of supramodal size perception processes. Considering our results, we suggest that audio-visual size correspondences can be used for educational purposes by aiding the discrimination of sizes, including angles of different aperture. Moreover, their use should be shaped according to children’s specific developmental stage. |
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spelling | pubmed-67512782019-09-30 Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age Cuturi, Luigi F. Tonelli, Alessia Cappagli, Giulia Gori, Monica Front Psychol Psychology Developmental studies have shown that children can associate visual size with non-visual and apparently unrelated stimuli, such as pure tone frequencies. Most research to date has focused on audio-visual size associations by showing that children can associate low pure tone frequencies with large objects, and high pure tone frequencies with small objects. Researchers relate these findings to coarser association, i.e., less precise associations for which binary categories of stimuli are used such as in the case of low versus high frequencies and large versus small visual stimuli. This study investigates how finer, more precise, crossmodal audio-visual associations develop during primary school age (from 6 to 11 years old). To unveil such patterns, we took advantage of a range of auditory pure tones and tested how primary school children match sounds with visually presented shapes. We tested 66 children (6–11 years old) in an audio-visual matching task involving a range of pure tone frequencies. Visual stimuli were circles or angles of different sizes. We asked participants to indicate the shape matching the sound. All children associated large objects/angles with low pitch, and small objects/angles with high pitch sounds. Interestingly, older children made greater use of intermediate visual sizes to provide their responses. Indeed, audio-visual associations for finer differences between stimulus features such as size and pure tone frequencies, may develop later depending on the maturation of supramodal size perception processes. Considering our results, we suggest that audio-visual size correspondences can be used for educational purposes by aiding the discrimination of sizes, including angles of different aperture. Moreover, their use should be shaped according to children’s specific developmental stage. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6751278/ /pubmed/31572264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02068 Text en Copyright © 2019 Cuturi, Tonelli, Cappagli and Gori. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Cuturi, Luigi F. Tonelli, Alessia Cappagli, Giulia Gori, Monica Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title | Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title_full | Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title_fullStr | Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title_full_unstemmed | Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title_short | Coarse to Fine Audio-Visual Size Correspondences Develop During Primary School Age |
title_sort | coarse to fine audio-visual size correspondences develop during primary school age |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31572264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02068 |
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