An experimenter finds that 3-month-old Ava is better able to discriminate faces when seeing the faces paired with their talking voices compared to seeing the faces alone. This is evidence in support of the _______ hypothesis.

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The intersensory redundancy hypothesis suggests that infants are better at processing information when it is presented through multiple sensory modalities, such as both visual and auditory, rather than through a single modality. Ava's improved ability to discriminate faces when paired with voices supports this hypothesis.

An Experimenter Finds That 3-Month-Old Ava Is Better Able to Discriminate