ERIC Number: EJ1249100
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
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Touch and Look: The Role of Visual-Haptic Cues for Categorical Learning in Primary School Children
Broadbent, Hannah; Osborne, Tamsin; Kirkham, Natasha; Mareschal, Denis
Infant and Child Development, v29 n2 e2168 Mar-Apr 2020
Benefits of synchronous presentation of multisensory compared to unisensory cues are well established. However, the generality of such findings to children's learning with visual and haptic sensory cue pairings is unclear. Children aged 6 to 10 years (N = 180) participated in a novel tabletop category-learning paradigm with visual, haptic, or visuohaptic informative cues. The results indicated that combinations of complimentary visual and haptic cues facilitated learning above unisensory visual cues only in 8-year-old children. Primarily, however, haptic information was found to dominate children's category learning across ages, particularly in the youngest children (6-year-olds), even with equal discriminability of haptic and visual exemplars. These findings suggest developmental changes in the ability to effectively combine unrelated visual and haptic information for categorical learning. Implications for the use of nonpertinent visuohaptic cues in learning tasks within educational settings at different ages, and in particular the dominance of haptic stimuli for children's learning, are discussed.
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Multisensory Learning, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Visual Stimuli, Teaching Methods, Tactual Perception
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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