The Development of Intersensory Perception

David J. Lewkowicz, Robert Lickliter

Contents: L.B. Smith, Foreword. Part I:Conceptual Issues.G. Turkewitz, Sources of Order for Intersensory Functioning. E.W. Bushnell, A Dual-Processing Approach to Cross-Modal Matching: Implications for Development. A. Walker-Andrews, Taxonomy for Intermodal Relations. Part II:Effects of Early Experience and Neural Mechanisms in Animals.R. Lickliter, H. Banker, Prenatal Components of Intersensory Development in Precocial Birds. B.E. Stein, M.A. Meredith, M.T. Wallace, Development and Neural Basis of Multisensory Integration. R.C. Tees, Early Stimulation History, the Cortex, and Intersensory Functioning in Infrahumans: Space and Time. N.E. Spear, D.L. McKinzie, Intersensory Integration in the Infant Rat. Part III:Intersensory Interactions in Human Development.D.J. Lewkowicz, Development of Intersensory Perception in Human Infants. L.E. Bahrick, J.N. Pickens, Amodal Relations: The Basis for Intermodal Perception and Learning in Infancy. B.A. Morrongiello, Effects of Colocation on Auditory-Visual Interactions and Cross-Modal Perception in Infants. S.A. Rose, From Hand to Eye: Findings and Issues in Infant Cross-Modal Transfer. A. Streri, M. Molina, Constraints on Intermodal Transfer Between Touch and Vision in Infancy. H. Bloch, Intermodal Participation in the Formation of Action in the Infant. A.N. Meltzoff, P.K. Kuhl, Faces and Speech: Intermodal Processing of Biologically Relevant Signals in Infants and Adults. D.W. Massaro, Bimodal Speech Perception Across the Life Span. Part IV:Future Directions.D.J. Lewkowicz, R. Lickliter, Insights into Mechanisms of Intersensory Development: The Value of a Comparative, Convergent-Operations Approach.