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intersensory perception

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Multisensory Integration in Infancy

1974 - 1993

During the period from 1974 to 1993, research highlighted the emergence of cross-modal processing in infancy, demonstrating that visual, tactile, and social cues are bound together to support recognition, joint attention, and social learning. Methodologically, investigations employed infant looking-time measures, still-face paradigms, and early forms of sensory recombination to reveal rapid calibration to changing sensory environments and cross-species effects on learning. The field converged on a multisensory, intersubjective conception of perception, setting the stage for later theories of theory of mind and social cognition.

Developmental multisensory integration and social perception in infancy reveals how early cross-modal cues—from faces and gaze to tactile interactions—shape recognition and joint visual attention, with cross-species developmental interference affecting learning [15], [9], [11], [7].

Perceptual adaptation, transformation of the visual field, and temporal processing: the visual system recalibrates under prism-like displacements and disparity changes, with multiple studies documenting adaptation processes and their time course [4], [5], [13], [16], [17].

Color-luminance interactions and texture-based organization: chromatic and luminance cues jointly constrain perceptual structure, with equivalent luminance contrast and double opponency shaping texture segregation [1], [6].

Cross-modal sensory coupling in social and somatosensory contexts: tactile-somatosensory inputs modulate social interaction and learning, including still-face/touch paradigms and sensory recombination techniques [2], [3], [14].

Intersensory Binding Paradigm

1994 - 2004

Cross-Modal Intersensory Integration

2005 - 2011

Dynamic Probabilistic Multisensory Integration

2012 - 2018

Context-Dependent Multisensory Integration

2019 - 2021