In contrast to developmental integration, this hypothesis formalizes and extendsthe proposal that newborn infants are primarily sensitive to amodal propertiesof multisensory stimulation, arguing that infants’ attention is captured earlyon by such amodal (redundant) properties of multisensory stimulation, and thatthis bootstraps their subsequent ability to perceive and learn about furtheraspects of the multisensory world (including more fine-grained amodalinformation, modality specific information, and arbitrary cross-modal relations.
See Active intermodal matching (AIM), Amodal, Cross-modal coordination, Cross-modal matching, Developmental integration, Intersensory perceptual narrowing, Multisensory cue integration