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Brigham Young University
The goal of the research is to examine how the development of intermodal perception guides infants’ memory for properties of dynamic events that can be seen and heard as well as those properties of an event that can only be seen or heard. We live in a world of objects and events that are multimodal and dynamic. Historically, however, much of the research in the area of sensory development has focused on the development of a single sense modality such as infants’ ability to visually discriminate various faces/patterns or their ability to auditorally recognize a particular voice, despite the fact that these abilities develop in a multimodal context. Little is known regarding the effects of intersensory perception and early memory development and it is important to do so given the multimodal nature of infants’ environment and the fact that infants use multisenory information in learning about, and organizing their world in a largely veridical manner.