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Developmental changes in sensitivity to spatial and temporal properties of sensory integration underlying body representation

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posted on 2018-02-07, 13:43 authored by Katie Greenfield, Danielle Ropar, Kristy Themelis, Natasha Ratcliffe, Roger NewportRoger Newport
The closer in time and space that two or more stimuli are presented, the more likely it is that they will be integrated together. A recent study by Hillock-Dunn and Wallace (2012) reported that the size of the visuo-Auditory temporal binding window -The interval within which visual and auditory inputs are highly likely to be integrated - narrows over childhood. However, few studies have investigated how sensitivity to temporal and spatial properties of multisensory integration underlying body representation develops in children. This is not only important for sensory processes but has also been argued to underpin social processes such as empathy and imitation (Schütz-Bosbach et al., 2006). We tested 4 to 11 year-olds' ability to detect a spatial discrepancy between visual and proprioceptive inputs (Experiment One) and a temporal discrepancy between visual and tactile inputs (Experiment Two) for hand representation. The likelihood that children integrated spatially separated visuo-proprioceptive information, and temporally asynchronous visuo-Tactile information, decreased significantly with age. This suggests that spatial and temporal rules governing the occurrence of multisensory integration underlying body representation are refined with age in typical development.

Funding

KG was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD studentship (grant number ES/J500100/1).

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Multisensory Research

Volume

30

Issue

6

Pages

467 - 484

Citation

GREENFIELD, K. ... et al, 2017. Developmental changes in sensitivity to spatial and temporal properties of sensory integration underlying body representation. Multisensory Research, 30 (6), pp. 467-484.

Publisher

Brill © The Authors

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-06-23

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Brill under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ISSN

2213-4794

eISSN

2213-4808

Language

  • en