Multisensory Development

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-958605-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that is richer and more complex than one modality alone could achieve. As adults, we integrate the multiple signals from these sense organs into unified functional representations. However, the ease with which we accomplish this feat belies its computational complexity. Not only do the senses convey information about the environment in different neural codes, but the relationship between the senses frequently changes when, for example, the body changes posture (e.g. when the eyes move in their sockets), or indeed shape, when the body grows across development. These computational problems prompt an important question which represents the key focus of this book: How do we develop the ability to integrate the senses? While there is a considerable literature on the development of single senses, such as vision or hearing, few books have considered the development of all our senses, and more importantly, how they develop the ability to work with each other.

This book is unique in exploring this extraordinary feat of human nature - how we develop the ability to integrate our senses. It will be an important book for all those in the fields of cognitive and developmental neuroscience.

Zielgruppe

Cognitive and developmental psychologists/neuroscientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bremner, Andrew J.

Lewkowicz, David J.

Spence, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Andrew J. Bremner, David J. Lewkowicz, and Charles Spence: The multisensory approach to development

- Typical development of multisensory processes from early gestation to old age

- 2: Benoist Schaal and Karine Durand: The role of olfaction in human multisensory development

- 3: Charles Spence: The development and decline of multisensory flavour perception: Assessing the role of visual (colour) cues on the perception of taste and flavour

- 4: Arlette Streri: Crossmodal interactions in the human newborn: New answers to Molyneux's question

- 5: Andrew J. Bremner, Nicholas P. Holmes, and Charles Spence: The development of multisensory representations of the body and of the space around the body

- 6: Marko Nardini and Dorothy Cowie: The development of multisensory balance, locomotion, orientation and navigation

- 7: David J. Lewkowicz: The unexpected effects of experience on the development of multisensory perception in primates

- 8: Lorraine E. Bahrick and Robert Lickliter: The role of intersensory redundancy in early perceptual, cognitive, and social development

- 9: Salvador Soto-Faraco, Marco Calabresi, Jordi Navarra, Janet F. Werker, and David J. Lewkowicz: The development of audiovisual speech perception

- 10: Daphne Maurer, Laura C. Gibson, and Ferrinne Spector: Infant synaesthesia: New insights into the development of multisensory perception

- 11: Paul J. Laurienti and Christina E. Hugenschmidt: Multisensory processes in old age

- Atypical multisensory development

- 12: Elisabeth L. Hill, Laura Crane, and Andrew J. Bremner: Developmental disorders and multisensory perception

- 13: Brigitte Röder: Sensory deprivation and the development of multisensory integration

- Neural computational and evolutionary mechanisms in multisensory development

- 14: Mark T. Wallace, Dipwanita Ghose, Aaron R. Nidiffer, Matthew C. Fister, and Juliane Krueger Fister: The development of multisensory integration in subcortical and cortical brain networks

- 15: Denis Mareschal, Gert Westermann, and Nadja Althaus: In search of the mechanisms of multisensory development

- 16: Asif A. Ghazanfar: The evolution of multisensory vocal communication in primates and the influence of developmental timing

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Andrew J. Bremner, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, David J. Lewkowicz, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK

Contributors:
Nadja Althaus, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Lorraine E. Bahrick Department of Psychology, Florida International University, US
Andrew J. Bremner, Sensorimotor Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Marco Calabresi, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Dorothy Cowie, Sensorimotor Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Laura Crane, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Karine Durand, Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Centre for Taste and Smell Science, Université de Bourgogne, France
Matthew C. Fister, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, US
Asif A. Ghazanfar, Neuroscience Institute, Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, US
Dipwanita Ghose, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, US
Laura C. Gibson, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Canada
Elisabeth L. Hill, Sensorimotor Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Nicholas P. Holmes, Department of Psychology, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK
Christina E. Hugenschmidt, Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, US
Juliane Krueger Fister, Program in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, US
Paul J. Laurienti, Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, US
David J. Lewkowicz, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, US
Robert Lickliter, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, US
Denis Mareschal, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Daphne Maurer, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Canada
Marko Nardini, Department of Visual Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, UK
Jordi Navarra, Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Spain
Aaron R. Nidiffer, Program in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, US
Brigitte Röder, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Benoist Schaal, Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology Group, Centre for Taste and Smell Science, CNRS Université de Bourgogne, France
Salvador Soto-Faraco, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Ferrinne Spector, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Canada
Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Arlette Streri, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris Descartes University, Institut Universitaire de France, France
Mark T. Wallace, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Departments of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Psychology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, US
Janet F. Werker, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Gert Westermann, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, UK