Intersensory redundancy promotes visual rhythm discrimination in visually impaired infants

• Visual impairment does not prevent the development of intersensory redundancy.
• Learning of amodal properties in a bimodal stimulus can transfer to a unimodal stimulus.
• We used for the first time a habituation paradigm with visually impaired infants.

Infants’ attention is captured by the redundancy of amodal stimulation in multimodal objects and events. Evidence from this study demonstrates that intersensory redundancy can facilitate discrimination of rhythm changes presented in the visual modality alone in visually impaired infants, suggesting that multisensory rehabilitation strategies could prove helpful in this population.