ABSTRACT
A survey of the preceding chapters demonstrates the variety of methods and techniques that have been successfully applied to the study of intersensory development across different species in recent years. For example, Stein, Meredith, and Wallace have utilized the single-cell recording technique in their investigations of the neural mechanisms underlying multimodal integration in the colliculi of the cat. Lickliter and Banker have used the early exposure method to ask how perinatal sensory experience might influence the devel-
opment of intersensoty functioning in precocial birds, whereas Tees has used the deprivation method to ask similar questions with neonatal rats. Spear and McKinzie have applied classical conditioning techniques to determine what classes of multimodal stimulation neonatal rats can successfully associate. A number of other contributors (Bahrick & Pickens; Bloch; Bushnell; Lewkowicz; Meltzoff & Kuhl; Morrongiello; Rose; Streri & Molina; Walker-Andrews) have used measures of visual attention to determine whether human infants' visual preferences can be modified either by preceding experience in another sensory modality or by concurrent input to another modality. Finally, Massaro has utilized psychophysical techniques to explore patterns of intersensory integration across the life span.
