Intermodal Perception and Selective Attention to Intersensory Redundancy: Implications for Typical Social Development and Autism

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Selective Attention: The Underappreciated Foundation for Perception, Learning and Memory in a Dynamic, Multimodal Environment Intermodal Perception: Definitions, Issues, and Questions The Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis (IRH) The Role of Intersensory Redundancy in Social Development: Perception of Faces, Voices, Speech, and Emotion Lessons from Atypical Development Conclusions and Future Directions: Toward a More Integrated, Ecologically Relevant Model of Perceptual Development Acknowledgments References