Detecting ‘infant-directedness' in face and voice

SHORT REPORT Detecting ‘infant-directedness’ in face and voice

Fiveand 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 adultdirected (AD), while listening to ID speech, AD speech, or in silence. Infants showed consistently greater dwell time on ID faces vs. AD fac...

The development of infant learning about specific face-voice relations.

This study examined the development of infants' ability to perceive, learn, and remember the unique face-voice relations of unfamiliar adults. Infants of 2, 4, and 6 months were habituated to the faces and voices of 2 same-gender adults speaking and then received test trials where the faces and voices were synchronized yet mismatched. Results indicated that 4- and 6-month-olds, but not 2-month-...

Detecting Bifurcations in Voice Signals

A Comparative Study of Face-to-Face and Nonahal App education on Weight Gain and Mother-Infant Attachment in premature neonatal hospitalized in NICU

Background Supporting the family and educating the parents helps them in taking care of their infants. Recent developments in mobile technology have created many opportunities to enhance people's health and welfare. The purpose of the study was to compare face-to-face education and education through Nonahal mobile app on neonatal weight gain and mother-neonate attachment in the NICU. Method: T...

Infant recognition of mother's voice.

Each of a group of one-month-old infants was reinforced, contingent upon nonutritive sucking, with its mother's voice and the voice of a stranger. In this experiment, two conditions were applied. Under the first, the mother's speech was aimed at communicating with the infant, while, under the second, the mother's speech lacked prosodic and intonational aspects of normal speech. It was shown tha...