Perception of Multisensory Gender Coherence in 6- and 9-month-old Infants

Overview

Journal Infancy

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Pediatrics

Date 2015 Nov 13

PMID 26561475

Citations 11

Authors

Anne Hillairet de Boisferon

Eve Dupierrix

Paul C Quinn

Helene Loevenbruck

David J Lewkowicz

Kang Lee

Olivier Pascalis

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Abstract

One of the most salient social categories conveyed by human faces and voices is gender. We investigated the developmental emergence of the ability to perceive the coherence of auditory and visual attributes of gender in 6- and 9-month-old infants. Infants viewed two side-by-side video clips of a man and a woman singing a nursery rhyme and heard a synchronous male or female soundtrack. Results showed that 6-month-old infants did not match the audible and visible attributes of gender, and 9-month-old infants matched only female faces and voices. These findings indicate that the ability to perceive the multisensory coherence of gender emerges relatively late in infancy and that it reflects the greater experience that most infants have with female faces and voices.

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