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Perceiving similarity and comprehending metaphor.

L E Marks1, R J Hammeal, M H Bornstein

  • 1John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory, New Haven, CT 06519.

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
|January 1, 1987
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Young children perceive pitch-brightness and loudness-brightness similarities, suggesting innate sensory codes. Pitch-size similarity develops later, likely through learned associations, impacting synesthetic metaphor comprehension.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cross-Modal Perception

Background:

  • Cross-modal (synesthetic) similarities link different sensory experiences.
  • Understanding how children comprehend these similarities is key to cognitive development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess children's and adults' comprehension of four types of cross-modal similarities.
  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of perceptual and verbal synesthetic understanding.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted three experiments with nearly 500 children (3.5-13.5 years) and over 100 adults.
  • Tested both perceptual matching (e.g., pitch to brightness) and verbal metaphoric translation tasks.

Main Results:

  • Children and adults consistently matched pitch-brightness and loudness-brightness, indicating early perceptual understanding.

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  • Pitch-size similarity recognition emerged around age 11, suggesting a learned component.
  • Young children demonstrated some capacity for verbal synesthetic metaphor translation, improving with age.

    • Conclusions:

    • Early cross-modal similarities (pitch-brightness, loudness-brightness) may stem from intrinsic perceptual codes.
    • Pitch-size similarity appears to be learned, possibly via associations with object properties.
    • Verbal metaphor interpretation develops alongside conceptual differentiation and integration abilities, accessing graded perceptual knowledge.