{"pk":49754,"title":"Semantic Congruency Across Development","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Multisensory processing often results in facilitation and/or interference effects, yet the mechanisms remain unclear. The two reported experiments used a Stroop-like task to examine how congruent, incongruent, and irrelevant information presented in one sensory modality (e.g., visual) affects processing and responding in a different modality (e.g., auditory). Across two experiments, adults (E1) and 5-year-olds (E2) were presented with pictures and sounds, and they had to determine if what they saw or heard was an animal or vehicle. Experiment 1 with adults showed evidence of both facilitation on congruent trials and interference on incongruent trials, with unattended visual stimuli having a larger effect on auditory processing than vice versa. Results in 5-year-olds were slightly more symmetrical than adults but there was no evidence that auditory input dominated visual processing. Possible mechanisms underlying these effects are discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Cognitive development; Sensory Processing; Developmental analysis"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kv216jv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Susan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Geffen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Taylor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Beck","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Ainsley","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shelsta","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Robinson","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49754/galley/37716/download/"}]}