Learning to Attend Selectively: The Dual Role of Intersensory Redundancy. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Lickliter, Robert
• Is Part Of: Current directions in psychological science. Volume 23:Number 6(2014:Dec.)
• Page Start: 414
• Page End: 420
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: selective attention -- development of perception -- intersensory redundancy -- attentional salience; Psychology -- Periodicals; 150
• DOI: 10.1177/0963721414549187
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0963-7214

Abstract

Selective attention is the gateway to perceptual processing, learning, and memory and is a skill honed through extensive experience. However, little research has focused on how selective attention develops. Here, we synthesize established and new findings from studies assessing the central role of redundancy across the senses in guiding and constraining this process in infancy and early childhood. We highlight research demonstrating the dual role of intersensory redundancy—its facilitating and interfering effects—in the detection and perceptual processing of various properties of objects and events.