Auditory Perception In Infants

Research has indicated that the visual capability of infants is highly organized to allow perception of coherent shapes and objects instead of irregular mass of stimulation. However, infants poorly detect visual information when compared with adults, for example, in contrast sensitivity, colour discrimination, and depth perception. Infants possess a level of visual functioning suitable for the things they need to do, that which is important to their development.
Auditory Perception
Infants can only perceive sound at high frequencies with the discrimination of high frequencies being superior to adults. Babies seem to have an improved absolute threshold, which tests intensity processing for pure tones. Unlike adults, infants can discriminate between sounds of varying timbres with the same pitch. Infants use spectral shape to locate the source of a sound due to their sensitivity to sound frequency differences rather than sound intensity. However, the grouping of auditory information into perceptually meaningful elements is not fully developed in infants. Infants, unlike adults
Researchers should take caution when interpreting experiments conducted with life-like stimuli to ensure that accurate results on the behavior of infants in noisy and clattered environments. However, research indicates that most of the perceptions infant hold regarding the world is learned from adults rather than from innate abilities. The newborn learns quickly about visual experiences and events since their visual cortex is developed. Infants aged between 4 to 6 months can encode structural cues with specificity of mid-level integrative stages, which distinguishes between a face and an object. As such, future research should seek to bridge the gap perceptual behaviors and neural