Infant Vocalization
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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization
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2017
At 3-4 months, listening to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations boosts infants' cognition; by 6 months, only human vocalizations exert this cognitive advantage. We describe an exposure manipulation that reveals the powerful shaping role of experience as infants specify which sounds to link to cognition and which to tune out.
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Habituation: Studying Infants Before They Can Talk
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles, Judith Danovitch, and Cara Cashon—University of Louisville Infants are one of the purest sources of information about human thinking and learning, because they’ve had very few life experiences. Thus, researchers are interested in gathering data from infants, but as participants in experimental research, they are a challenging group to study. Unlike older children and adults, young infants are unable to reliably speak, understand speech, or even move and...
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P50 Sensory Gating in Infants
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2013
Methods to record auditory P50 sensory gating, a physiological marker of cerebral inhibition which reflects early stages of attention, are described.
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Construction and Characterization of a Novel Vocal Fold Bioreactor
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2014
A novel vocal fold bioreactor capable of delivering physiologically relevant, vibratory stimulation to cultured cells is constructed and characterized. This dynamic culture device, when combined with a fibrous poly(ε-caprolactone) scaffold, creates a vocal fold-mimetic environment that modulates the behaviors of mesenchymal stem cells.
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Using Your Head: Measuring Infants' Rational Imitation of Actions
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville One of the main challenges of infancy is to learn how to achieve one’s goals in the world, whether they are to pick up a toy or to express desires to another person, and one of the most powerful tools in this learning process is imitation. However, imitation is not always as simple as copying other people’s actions; it is also necessary to realize that goals and intentions guide behavior. The world is a...
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Producing a sound requires infants to coordinate breathing with vocal-fold activity and movements of the tongue, lips, and jaw. As this coordination develops, the resulting vocal patterns can change in timing and form. Studying these changes helps psychologists connect observable sounds with developing motor control and emerging capacities for communication.
Caregiver responses provide a social context in which infants’ sounds can be examined. Researchers consider how vocalization and caregiver behavior occur in relation to one another when studying early language learning, attachment, emotional regulation, and social communication. This focus shifts attention from sounds alone to the interactional processes surrounding them.
Patterns and timing can show how vocal behavior changes across development and social interaction. A single sound offers limited information, whereas repeated observations of when and how vocalizations occur can help researchers investigate communication development, emotional regulation, and responses between infants and caregivers. These measures also support comparisons of developmental outcomes.
Researchers analyze the forms of infants’ sounds, their timing, and the responses that occur around them. They may relate these observations to internal states and social interaction while examining coordination among breathing, vocal folds, and oral movements. This approach connects measurable vocal behavior with broader psychological questions about early communication and development.
Changes in vocal development can provide information relevant to developmental assessment, particularly when researchers examine patterns over time rather than relying on one observation. Vocalization measures may help identify communication differences and clarify developmental outcomes. In psychology, this information can also guide research on approaches intended to support communication development and intervention.
Infant vocalization offers a behavioral measure for studying language learning, emotional regulation, attachment, and early social communication. Researchers can investigate these processes by relating vocal patterns and timing to internal states and caregiver responses. The resulting evidence helps place early sounds within a wider account of how communication and relationships develop.