Sentences with phrase «infant vocalizations»

Figure 5 shows adult response rates to infant vocalizations by adult gender.

The study, which is the first to examine the effects of infant vocalizations on adult neural activity during a cognitive task, will be published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG) during each trial of the cognitive task, which took place immediately after a two - second audio clip of an infant vocalization.

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When mom does not respond to baby, the infant increases vocalizations to get mom's attention.

Interestingly, but not really surprising, when a human infants inherent need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.

So as the infant matures past three months in vocalization, the sound reflexes become replaced with more like elaborate babbling.

It lays out a possible route from general calls between individuals keeping in touch when out of sight, to specific, more complex vocalizations with infants, and eventually into lullabies.

More demands for attention from the infant through crying might be answered with more complex vocalizations from the caregiver.

At 3 months old, listening to both human and nonhuman primate (lemur) vocalizations supports infants» ability to form categories, a building block of cognition.

In the experiments, the researchers found that merely exposing 6 - month - old infants to nonhuman primate vocalizations permits them to preserve, rather than sever, their early link between these signals and categorization.

Crying has also been used to describe the vocalizations of monkey and ape infants when they are being weaned, and when they are separated from their mothers (either temporarily due to losing sight of the mother or permanently due to maternal death).

«If [Plooij] has all the vocalizations and the field notes that say what was happening at the time, it would be much easier for me to see how those particular grunts related to what I find in human infants.»

The finding that reciprocal vocalizations between mothers and infants were more frequent than those between fathers and infants supports our second hypothesis.

The study of infant emotion has relied predominantly on external signs of experienced emotions such as facial expressions, gestures and vocalizations.