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Previous research has shown that Ss can recognize, classify, or identify the same nominal stimuli when presented via different sensory modalities. Two hypotheses, the mediational and invariant features, have been forwarded in an attempt to account for this ability. The present study was designed so that the reliable transfer of either specific or conceptual sources of information across sensory modalities would provide support for the invariant-feature hypothesis. Evidence was obtained for the transfer of both sources of information when the stimulus modality was not changed. However, neither source of transfer was evident when the stimulus modality was changed; thus, no support for the invariant features hypothesis was obtained in the present study.
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A portion of this paper was presented at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Las Vegas, 1973.
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Shaffer, R.W., Howard, J. The transfer of information across sensory modalities. Perception & Psychophysics 15, 344–348 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213956
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