Cross-modal perception

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Cross-modal perception is a term from infant and toddler research that was mainly coined by the German psychologist Martin Dornes . He describes the "process in which the various sensory perceptions are related to one another."

Researches

Various studies have shown that, shortly after birth, infants are able to coordinate sensory perceptions from different modules and switch between individual sensory channels. For example, if you put a pacifier with pimples in the mouth of a twenty-day-old baby and then show them a picture of a pacifier with and without a pimple, they will look at the picture with the pimple pacifier longer. Thirty-day-old infants are irritated when a person's voice is not coming from their direction, but from the side, for example. And if you show three to four month old babies two different films on two monitors and play the synchronization from the middle, they will watch the appropriate film longer.

The American psychoanalyst Daniel Stern assumes that infants form these preverbal, psychological representations (acoustic, optical, etc.) very early on and are stored as generalized representations of interactions ( RIGs ). They contain segmented memories from the life of the baby, such as the breastfeeding process. The physical and non-verbal signals from the caregivers are decisive.

literature

  • Axel Klöss-Fleischmann: Time perception in babies - cross-modal perception . GRIN Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-656-11272-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Dornes : The competent infant. The preverbal development of man. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 43f.
  2. ↑ Mauri Fries (Clinic for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry / Psychotherapy, Rostock): The developmental dynamics of early interactions - prerequisites and opportunities for building a bond. Karlsruhe 2001, p. 4f.
  3. ↑ Martin Dornes: The competent infant. The preverbal development of man. 11th edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-11263-X , p. 152ff.
  4. ^ Daniel Stern : The Infant's Life Experience. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, p. 152ff.