A lack of evidence in 4-month-old human infants for paternal voice preference

Ward, Cynthia D.; Cooper, Robin Panneton

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199907)35:1<49::aid-dev7>3.0.co;2-3

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“…Transnatal Auditory Learning showed no preference for the paternal voice versus a stranger male voice although the 4-month-olds in the study could discriminate between male voices. 56 Perhaps prenatal exposure has lasting effects on infant response to the maternal voice, but there are also important differences in the newborn's postnatal experience with each parent that could begin to affect infants as early as the first day after birth. In addition to demonstrating preferences for listening to particular voices, newborns have shown that they respond differentially to languages.…”

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Evidence of Transnatal Auditory Learning

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Evidence of Transnatal Auditory Learning

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“…Although human neonates exhibited a preference for their own mother's over an unfamiliar mother's voices in an operant sucking paradigm (DeCasper & Fifer, 1980), they failed to show a preference for their own father's over an unfamiliar father's voice (DeCasper and Prescott, 1984). Working with older infants in a visual-fixation-based auditory preference paradigm, Ward and Cooper (1999) found that 4-month-old infants did not exhibit a preference for their own father's AD or ID speech over that produced by an unfamiliar father, even though the speech segments were demonstrably discriminable.…”

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Infant-directed speech produced by fathers with symptoms of depression: Effects on infant associative learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm

Kaplan¹,

Sliter²,

Burgess³

2007

Infant Behavior and Development

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Infant-directed (ID) speech produced by fathers who varied in their number of self-reported symptoms of depressed was analyzed for differences its ability to promote infant voice-face associative learning. Infants of fathers with elevated scores on the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) showed significantly poorer learning than did infants of fathers with non-elevated BDI-II scores when their fathers' ID speech served as a conditioned stimulus for a face reinforcer in a conditioned-attention paradigm. Fathers with elevated BDI-II scores produced ID speech with marginally significantly lower F 0 variability than fathers with non-elevated BDI-II scores. However, F 0 -related cues were uncorrelated with infant learning. Overall, fathers' ID speech contained significantly less F 0 modulation than did mothers' ID speech. These findings show that paternal depression, like maternal depression, adversely affects infant learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm.

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“…Using the non-nutritive sucking procedure, neonates will suck preferentially to hear their mother's voice over an unfamiliar female voice (e.g., DeCasper & Fifer, 1980;Mehler, Bertoncini, Barri ere, & Jassik-Gerschenfeld, 1978;Mills & Melhuish, 1974). Newborns and young infants do not show preferences for their father's voice over an unfamiliar male voice, but they can distinguish between the two (e.g., DeCasper & Prescott, 1984;Ward & Cooper, 1999). Furthermore, investigations into the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the maternal voice preference have shown that the infant brain responds differently to familiar and unfamiliar voices (e.g., Beauchemin et al, 2011;Purhonen, Kilpel€ ainen-Lees, Valkonen-Korhonen, Karhu, & Lehtonen, 2004).…”

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Resolving the (Apparent) Talker Recognition Paradox in Developmental Speech Perception

Fecher

Paquette‐Smith

Johnson

2019

Infancy

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The infant literature suggests that humans enter the world with impressive built‐in talker processing abilities. For example, newborns prefer the sound of their mother's voice over the sound of another woman's voice, and well before their first birthday, infants tune in to language‐specific speech cues for distinguishing between unfamiliar talkers. The early childhood literature, however, suggests that preschoolers are unable to learn to identify the voices of two unfamiliar talkers unless these voices are highly distinct from one another, and that adult‐level talker recognition does not emerge until children near adolescence. How can we reconcile these apparently paradoxical messages conveyed by the infant and early childhood literatures? Here, we address this question by testing 16.5‐month‐old infants (N = 80) in three talker recognition experiments. Our results demonstrate that infants at this age have difficulty recognizing unfamiliar talkers, suggesting that talker recognition (associating voices with people) is mastered later in life than talker discrimination (telling voices apart). We conclude that methodological differences across the infant and early childhood literatures—rather than a true developmental discontinuity—account for the performance differences in talker processing between these two age groups. Related findings in other areas of developmental psychology are discussed.

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A lack of evidence in 4-month-old human infants for paternal voice preference

Cited by 23 publications

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Evidence of Transnatal Auditory Learning

Evidence of Transnatal Auditory Learning

Infant-directed speech produced by fathers with symptoms of depression: Effects on infant associative learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm

Resolving the (Apparent) Talker Recognition Paradox in Developmental Speech Perception

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