Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds

Bruce, Madeleine; Panneton, Robin; Taylor, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105304

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“…Finally, despite previous work having found toddlers to be able to match congruent multi-sensory information (Bruce et al, 2022;Wojcik, 2013), the participants in our sample showed no significant looking behaviour indicating matching during congruent trials for affective multimodal information. This unexpected result may be impacted by the decision to include fewer congruent (six 10-s trials) compared to incongruent trials (twelve 10-s trials).…”

Section: F I G U R Econtrasting

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Effects of conflicting emotional cues on toddlers’ emotion perception

Brady,

Ogren,

Johnson

2024

British J of Dev Psycho

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The communication of emotion is dynamic and occurs across multiple channels, such as facial expression and tone of voice. When cues are in conflict, interpreting emotion can become challenging. Here, we examined the effects of incongruent emotional cues on toddlers’ interpretation of emotions. We presented 33 children (22–26 months, Mage = 23.8 months, 15 female) with side‐by‐side images of faces along with sentences spoken in a tone of voice that conflicted with semantic content. One of the two faces matched the emotional tone of the audio, whereas the other matched the semantic content. For both congruent and incongruent trials, toddlers showed no overall looking preference to either type of face stimuli. However, during the second exposure to the sentences of incongruent trials, older children tended to look longer to the face matching semantic content when listening to happy vs. angry content. Results inform our understanding of the early development of complex emotion understanding.

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Section: F I G U R Econtrasting

confidence: 99%

Effects of conflicting emotional cues on toddlers’ emotion perception

Brady,

Ogren,

Johnson

2024

British J of Dev Psycho

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“…The MAAP (Bahrick, Todd, et al, 2018) and the IPEP (Bahrick, Soska, et al, 2018) both assess attention skills in the context of dynamic, audiovisual social (speech), and nonsocial (object) events, making them relevant to natural learning contexts of infants and children where people and objects move and can be both seen and heard. They have now been successfully used for predicting language outcomes (Bahrick, Todd, et al, 2018; Edgar et al, 2022, 2003), have been adapted for virtual platforms (Eschman et al, 2022), and are becoming increasingly used by researchers in developmental science (e.g., Bruce et al, 2022).…”

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Effects of English versus Spanish language exposure on basic multisensory attention skills across 3 to 36 months of age.

Edgar¹,

Todd²,

Eschman³

et al. 2023

Developmental Psychology

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Recent research has demonstrated that individual differences in infant attention to faces and voices of women speaking predict language outcomes in childhood. These findings have been generated using two new audiovisual attention assessments appropriate for infants and young children, the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) and the Intersensory Processing Efficiency Protocol (IPEP). The MAAP and IPEP assess three basic attention skills (sustaining attention, shifting/disengaging, intersensory matching), as well as distractibility, deployed in the context of naturalistic audiovisual social (women speaking English) and nonsocial events (objects impacting a surface). Might children with differential exposure to Spanish versus English show different patterns of attention to social events on these protocols as a function of language familiarity? We addressed this question in several ways using children (n = 81 dual-language learners; n = 23 monolingual-language learners) from South Florida, tested longitudinally across 3–36 months. Surprisingly, results indicated no significant English language advantage on any attention measure for children from monolingual English versus dual English–Spanish language environments. Second, for dual-language learners, exposure to English changed across age, decreasing slightly from 3–12 months and then increasing considerably by 36 months. Furthermore, for dual-language learners, structural equation modeling analyses revealed no English language advantage on the MAAP or IPEP as a function of degree of English language exposure. The few relations found were in the direction of greater performance for children with greater Spanish exposure. Together, findings indicate no English language advantage for basic multisensory attention skills assessed by the MAAP or IPEP between the ages of 3 to 36 months.

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“…Admittedly, there are other measures, such as sensitivity, that capture parents' attuned and adequate reactions to children's signals using a global rating scale. Although these measures have been found to similarly predict children's language outcomes (e.g., Attig & Weinert, 2020;Bruce et al, 2022;Elsabbagh et al, 2013;Leigh et al, 2011;Murray et al, 2016) SR interactions are often assessed as parent responses (usually the first response) that occur within a specified time window (e.g., 2, 3, or 5 seconds) following every child act (e.g., look to toy, look to parent, gestures, vocalizations) and are semantically relevant for the child act (e.g., labeling the toy the child looks to, imitating the child's vocalization). Most studies adopt a 2 or 5 s time window to distinguish parents' temporally contingent from non-temporally contingent responses (e.g., Baumwell et al, 1997;Benassi et al, 2018;Goldstein & Schwade, 2008;Miller & Lossia, 2013;Shimpi et al, 2012;Tamis-LeMonda et al, 2001).…”

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Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months

Chen,

Cabrera,

Reich

2023

Infant Behavior and Development

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Multisensory integration and maternal sensitivity are related to each other and predictive of expressive vocabulary in 24-month-olds

Cited by 8 publications

References 70 publications

Effects of conflicting emotional cues on toddlers’ emotion perception

Effects of conflicting emotional cues on toddlers’ emotion perception

Effects of English versus Spanish language exposure on basic multisensory attention skills across 3 to 36 months of age.

Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months

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