Detecting 'infant-directedness' in Face and Voice

Overview

Journal Dev Sci

Specialty Psychology

Date 2014 Mar 1

PMID 24576091

Citations 14

Authors

Hojin I Kim

Scott P Johnson

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Abstract

Five- and 3-month-old infants' perception of infant-directed (ID) faces and the role of speech in perceiving faces were examined. Infants' eye movements were recorded as they viewed a series of two side-by-side talking faces, one infant-directed and one adult-directed (AD), while listening to ID speech, AD speech, or in silence. Infants showed consistently greater dwell time on ID faces vs. AD faces, and this ID face preference was consistent across all three sound conditions. ID speech resulted in higher looking overall, but it did not increase looking at the ID face per se. Together, these findings demonstrate that infants' preferences for ID speech extend to ID faces.

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