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2012-11-14 13:25
Can infants form cross-modal association between visual and olfactory information?
-- Associative learning using novel odor -- Yuiko Sakuta (Chuo Univ.), Yuna Inada (Japan Women's Univ.), Sakiko Ogawa (Chuo Univ.), Yuji Wada (NFRI), Satomi Kunieda (Takasago International Corp.), So Kanazawa (Japan Women's Univ.), Masami K. Yamaguchi (Chuo Univ.) HIP2012-49 |
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It has been explored whether infants can form association between different sensory information such as vision and olfaction. For example, 4-month-old infants can learn arbitrary association between familiar odor and object (Fernandez & Bahrick, 1994). In the current study, infants (5-8 month olds) learned a scented toy with unfamiliar odor (anise) and an unscented toy for two weeks. Then two pictures of the toys were presented on computer monitor. As the result, the infants looked the picture of the scented toy longer than the one of the unscented toy when the odor was presented. Thus the infants can form the arbitrary association between visual and olfactory information. |
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multisensory integration / visual and olfactory information / infant / associative learning / / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 283, HIP2012-49, pp. 7-12, Nov. 2012. |
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HIP2012-49 |
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2012-11-07 (HIP) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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