title: Susceptibility to the flash-beep illusion is increased in children compared to adults.
abstract: Audio-visual integration was studied in children aged 8-17 (N = 30) and adults (N = 22) using the 'flash-beep illusion' paradigm, where the presentation of two beeps causes a single flash to be perceived as two flashes (fission illusion), and a single beep causes two flashes to be perceived as one flash (fusion illusion). Children reported significantly more fission illusions than adults, indicating that auditory and visual information was integrated more often, and less selectively, than in adults. Within either group, illusion reports did not correlate with either age or motor coordination measures. The current results show that the form of multisensory integration indexed by the illusion is slow to mature in normally developing children.
authors: The Bionic Ear Institute, Melbourne, Australia. hinnes-brown@bionicear.org
authors: Hamish
authors: H
authors: Innes-Brown
authors: Ayla
authors: A
authors: Barutchu
authors: Mohit N
authors: MN
authors: Shivdasani
authors: David P
authors: DP
authors: Crewther
authors: David B
authors: DB
authors: Grayden
authors: Antonio G
authors: AG
authors: Paolini
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Paolini
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging; D001307:Auditory Perception; D002648:Child; D056228:Feedback, Sensory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception