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The relationship between metaphoric and crossmodal abilities during development.

M M Sepehr1, J V Brown, G Ettlinger

  • 1University of Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany.

The International Journal of Neuroscience
|January 1, 1988
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Young children can connect physical differences across senses by age three. Crossmodal abilities develop with age, distinct from metaphoric skills in children aged 3-8 years.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Crossmodal Perception

Background:

  • Metaphoric ability involves relating physically dissimilar stimuli across senses.
  • Crossmodal performance focuses on specific stimulus differences within sensory modalities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the developmental separation of metaphoric and crossmodal abilities in children aged 3-8 years.
  • Determine the age at which crossmodal performance, based on specific differences, becomes distinct from metaphoric performance.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using touch and vision modalities.
  • Tasks included two-trial recognition and training followed by cross-modality recognition trials.
  • Participants were children aged 3-8 years.

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Main Results:

  • Children as young as three demonstrated the ability to relate specific physical stimulus differences across sense-modalities.
  • Metaphoric recognition was observed in 3- and 4-year-olds, but crossmodal performance was superior at all ages.
  • Crossmodal abilities improved with age, linked to enhanced intramodal skills.

Conclusions:

  • Crossmodal and metaphoric abilities appear to be distinct developmental processes in children aged 3-8 years.
  • Intramodal skill improvement partially explains crossmodal ability enhancement.
  • Further research is needed to fully understand the separation of these cognitive abilities.