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Brigitte Röder1, Birthe Pagel, Tobias Heed

  • 1University of Hamburg, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Von-Melle-Park 11, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany. Brigitte.Roeder@uni-hamburg.de

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Children develop the ability to integrate visual and tactile information over time. Improved crossmodal temporal order judgment (TOJ) emerges in older children, suggesting spatial coordinate system development.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Sensory Integration

Background:

  • The integration of spatial and temporal information is crucial for distinguishing sensory streams.
  • This integration may rely on encoding stimuli within external spatial coordinate systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if crossmodal temporal order judgment (TOJ) facilitation depends on externally anchored spatial coordinate systems.
  • To examine developmental changes in crossmodal sensory integration.

Main Methods:

  • A crossmodal temporal order judgment (TOJ) task was administered to 59 children (5-12 years) and 12 adults.
  • Participants judged the order of simple visual and tactile stimuli presented in the same or different visual hemifields.
  • Performance was compared between crossmodal and intramodal conditions across different age groups.

Main Results:

  • Presenting stimuli in different hemifields improved crossmodal TOJ in children aged 10 years and older.
  • Intramodal TOJ performance surpassed crossmodal TOJ starting at age 6.
  • Adult-level crossmodal TOJ performance was achieved by 12 years of age.

Conclusions:

  • Redundant coding of sensory input in modality-specific and independent spatial coordinates aids intramodal temporal processing.
  • Refinement of external spatial coordinate systems supports the integrated use of space and time for event perception.
  • Developmental maturation of spatial processing underlies enhanced crossmodal integration.