Multisensory stimuli enhance the effectiveness of equivalence learning in healthy children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT: It has been demonstrated earlier in healthy adult volunteers that visually and multisensory (audiovisual) guided equivalence learning are similarly effective. Thus, these processes seem to be independent of stimulus modality. The question arises as to whether this phenomenon can be observed also healthy children and adolescents. To assess this, visual and audiovisual equivalence learning was tested in 157 healthy participants younger than 18 years of age, in both a visual and an audiovisual paradigm consisting of acquisition, retrieval and generalization phases. Performance during the acquisition phase (building of associations), was significantly better in the multisensory paradigm, but there was no difference between the reaction times (RTs). Performance during the retrieval phase (where

SUBMITTER: Eordegh G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9337650 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature