Audiovisual integration in noise by children and adults
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Date
2010
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Elsevier,
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the development of multisensory
facilitation in primary school age children under conditions of auditory noise. Motor
reaction times and accuracy were recorded from 8-year-olds, 10-year-olds and adults
during an auditory, a visual, and an audiovisual detection task. Auditory signal-to-noise
ratios (SNRs) of 30, 22, 12 and 9 dB across the different age groups were compared.
Multisensory facilitation was greater in adults than in children, though performance for
all age-groups was affected by the presence of background noise. It is posited that
changes in multisensory facilitation with increased auditory noise may be due to changes
in attention bias.
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Keywords
Multisensory, Facilitation, Vision, Audition, Development, Children
Citation
Barutchu, A., Danaher, J., Crewther, S. G., Innes-Brown, H., Shivdasani, M. N., & Paolini, A. G. (2010). Audiovisual integration in noise by children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 105(1), 38-50.