title: Intersensory redundancy promotes visual rhythm discrimination in visually impaired infants.
abstract: Infants' attention is captured by the redundancy of amodal stimulation in multimodal objects and events. Evidence from this study demonstrates that intersensory redundancy can facilitate discrimination of rhythm changes presented in the visual modality alone in visually impaired infants, suggesting that multisensory rehabilitation strategies could prove helpful in this population.
authors.affiliation: 0-3 Centre for the Study of Social Emotional Development of At-Risk Infant, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, LC, Italy.
authors.forename: Viola
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brenna
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: elena.nava@unimib.it.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nava
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Turati
authors.affiliation: 0-3 Centre for the Study of Social Emotional Development of At-Risk Infant, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, LC, Italy.
authors.forename: Rosario
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Montirosso
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, LC, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cavallini
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psychiatry, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, LC, Italy.
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borgatti
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D002657:Child Development; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Audio–visual information; Development; Intersensory redundancy; Rhythm; Visual impairment