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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Infant attention"”.
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Infant attention to rate of infant directed speech in the context of varying levels of visual stimulation
Past research has found that infants between 1- and 4-months of age prefer extremely slow infant-directed (ID) speech to normal ID speech. Given that previous studies have paired the speech with a visual display, it was thought that perhaps the characteristics of the visual display affected infant …
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ATTENDING TO LEARN WHILE LEARNING TO ATTEND: RECIPROCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INFANT ATTENTION AND CONTINGENT CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
… and meaningful back-and-forth exchanges between infant and caregiver, is a powerful feature of the early language environment. Research suggests that infants with better attentional skills engage in more social contingency during interactions with adults and that adult contingent responding …
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Four-Month-Olds Do Not Prefer But Can Discriminate Infant Directed and Adult Directed Pitch Contours
… the role of pitch contours in directing infant attention to adult speech. Several studies have shown that infants from a few days old to 9 months of age prefer infant-directed (ID) over adult-directed (AD) speech. Moreover, 4-month-olds have been shown to prefer pitch contours that …
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Mother-infant interaction and the development of mastery motivation in infancy
Infant motivation towards competence or mastery is said to be enhanced by contingent environmental feedback (White, 1959). This theory has been supported by research into the contingent responsiveness of the infant caretaking environment (e.g. Vondra & Belsky, 1989). Other caregiving variables have …
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Looking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8- Month-Old Infants: Correspondence between Measures of Attention
… has been extensive work within the field of infant attention that has focused on the development of visual attention. Within this field, it has been well established that there are two distinct classifications of infants' visual behavior; infants with short visual fixations who perform well …
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A Latent Factor Analysis of Preschool Executive Functions: Investigations of Antecedents and Outcomes
… the data well. Longitudinal relations between attention in infancy, preschool EF, and school readiness and social competency at age 4 were also examined. Although infant attention measures failed to significantly predict later EF, pathways between age 4 EF (but not age 2 EF) and all age 4 …
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Effects of Voice Quality and Face Information on Infants' Speech Perception in Noise
… and Molnar (2008) found that 6- to 8-month-old infants do not discriminate a simple native consonant-vowel contrast when familiarized to it in the presence of distraction noise (i.e., recordings of crickets and birds chirping), even when testing was conducted in quiet. Because the distraction …
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Behavioral and Psychophysiological Responses of 4-month-old Infants to Differing Rates of Infant Directed Speech
Infants of various ages across the first postnatal year have shown behavioral preferences (i.e., more attention) to visual displays when looking resulted in the presentation of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) compared to Adult-Directed Speech (ADS). Although IDS differs from ADS on a variety of …
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Models and Tools for Studying Infants’ Attention
From birth, infants actively control where they look, long before they gain any significant motor control over other body parts. This early emergence of attentional preferences has allowed psychologists to use infants' gaze to gain insight into the developmental origins of perception and cognition. …
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The Ability of Four-Month-Olds to Discriminate Changes in Vocal Information in Multimodal Displays
Recent investigations into infants' intersensory perception suggest a specific developmental pattern for infants' attention to visible and auditory attributes of dynamic human faces. This work has proposed that infants' perception seems to progress along a sensory continuum: beginning with …
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Relating Infants' Social Engagement Profiles to Individual Differences in Language Outcomes
… outcomes in clinical and at-risk populations of infants, who show deficits in gaze following, face processing, and joint attention. Importantly, these are all skills related to language learning. This is most prominently illustrated by individuals with autism, for whom social engagement and …
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The Ability of Speaking Rate to Influence Infants' Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech
… how rate affects visual preferences in human infants and auditory preferences in avian infants. In the visual domain, it seems that human infants prefer stimuli (e.g., flashing displays) presented at faster relative rates. Research using avian species has shown that ducklings, for example, …
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The Perceptual Draw of Prosody: Infant-Directed Speech within the Context of Declining Nonnative Speech Perception
Infant speech perception develops within the context of specific language experience. While there is a corpus of empirical evidence concerning infants' perception of linguistic and prosodic information in speech, few studies have explored the interaction of the two. The present investigation was …