Information integration in cross-modal pattern recognition: an argument for acquired modularity.
Three experiments addressed the issue of whether modularized operations (Fodor, 1983) in pattern recognition could be acquired. In Experiment 1, blind and sighted individuals were compared in the speech-tactile domain of pattern recognition. The results were inconsistent with the assumptions of the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) (Oden and Massaro, 1978) and with the assumptions of modularized pattern recognition processes, but were consistent with the assumptions of 'penetrability' into non-modularized operations. Experiments 2 and 3 compared sighted individuals across speech-visual and speech-tactile domains, revealing fundamentally different patterns of performance that we argue demonstrate modularized and non-modularized FLMP operations in pattern recognition, respectively.
Thompson
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New Mexico State University, Psychology Dept. Las Cruces 88003-0001, USA. thompson@crl.nmsu.edu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D011601:Psychophysics; D011932:Reading; D012682:Sensory Aids; D013067:Speech Perception; D014110:Touch