Tactual Habituation and Discrimination of Form in Infancy: A Comparison with Vision
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Child Development
- Vol. 57 (1) , 100-104
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1986.tb00010.x
Abstract
Tactual discriminative abilities out of the control of vision are studied in 5-month-old infants, and compared with their visual discriminative abilities. The relevance of a habituation/reaction to novelty procedure in the tactual modality is tested. An infant control procedure is used in both modalities on 2 independent samples of 32 infants each. Habituation and discrimination occur tactually as well as visually, the duration of holds decreasing more than the duration of looks. Accumulated holding time is 3 times longer than accumulated looking time. Analogies and discrepancies between tactual and visual habituations are discussed, and the problem of sensory dominance is raised. Such results are basic to studies on cross-modal transfer, from vision to touch as well as from touch to vision.Keywords
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