{"pk":30031,"title":"Cross-modal ratio abstraction in children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In two experiments, we tested whether pre-schoolers can extract proportional information in the auditory modality andmatch it to a visual display. We familiarized 240 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds to a 2-minute stream of dog barks and frog croaksin a 4:1 ratio. In a forced-choice paradigm, we then presented a visual display of dogs and frogs (varying total number ofobjects in the display) in the target 4:1 ratio, against comparison ratios of 1:4, 2:1, 1:1, and 6:1. Children correctly chosethe matching 4:1 visual display over the 1:4 and 6:1 displays at above-chance rates regardless of absolute number, but onlyshowed a significant preference for the 4:1 display over 2:1 and 1:1 displays when the number of objects in the displaywas large. These findings provide preliminary support for cross-modal ratio abstraction in preschoolers and suggest thatthe absolute number of items in a display impacts childrens performance.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7th1j8w6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Reem","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tawfik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Waterloo","department":""},{"first_name":"Katherine","middle_name":"","last_name":"White","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Waterloo","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephanie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Denison","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Waterloo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30031/galley/19885/download/"}]}