PMID: 2486499Jun 1, 1989Paper

Parallel perceptual/cognitive functions in humans and rats: space and time

Canadian Journal of Psychology
R C Tees, K Buhrmann

Abstract

The nature of the evidence on the role played by early stimulation history in perceptual development related to an appreciation of intermodal attributes involving space and time is reviewed. In conjunction with this analysis, an examination was undertaken of the effect of early visual deprivation on the ability of dark- (DR) and light-reared (LR) rats to learn discriminations involving location of sounds or lights and to abstract the intersensory correspondence involved from the initial modality-specific training. Visually inexperienced DR rats were somewhat slower to acquire a discrimination involving the location of visual events under some stimulus/response arrangements. More importantly, such animals were not as effective as their visually experienced LR counterparts in demonstrating cross-modal transfer (CMT) to signals in a new modality. The present study also revealed that CMT involving location of signals was less salient than CMT of duration information in rats regardless of their rearing condition. Finally, findings are discussed more generally, providing contextual information that bears on issues related to parallel cognitive functions in rats and human neonates and on the role of early visual experience in the onto...Continue Reading

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Jul 1, 1990·Developmental Psychobiology·R C TeesJ Hanley
May 15, 2020·International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics : JOSE·Pascal Lamy, Nellie Perrin
Nov 1, 1996·Developmental Psychobiology·N A Lariviere, N E Spear

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