Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach

Krasotkina, Anna; Götz, Antonia; Höhle, Barbara; Schwarzer, Gudrun

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101607

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“…Findings that speech and face processing share neural (Belin et al, 2011;Pascalis et al, 2014) and developmental mechanisms (Krasotkina et al, 2018(Krasotkina et al, , 2021, which emerge around the same time, support the hypothesis that specialization might be a modality-general, multisensory process (Lewkowicz & Ghazanfar, 2009;Ujiie et al, 2020; for a review, see Maurer & Werker, 2014). In the present study, we took infants' age as a proxy for their level of face specialization.…”

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“…Our current question is focused on investigating the sources of this reorganization in terms of emerging face processing skills in late infancy. As previously mentioned, the developmental timing of the AVMMR disappearance seems to coincide with the emergence of configural face processing, raising the possibility of shared neural and developmental mechanisms of speech and face perception as suggested by earlier studies (Belin et al, 2011;Krasotkina et al, 2018Krasotkina et al, , 2021Pascalis et al, 2014). Therefore, to better understand the relations between the specialization for speech and face processing, we investigated a group of infants (aged 5-6.5 months) at the onset of the postulated period of configural face processing (before the age of 7 months; Cohen & Cashon, 2001).…”

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“…These processes are likely the result of experience-dependent specialization in the processing of information that is present in an infant's environment. This specialization (also known as perceptual narrowing) is not limited to auditory (e.g., native phonemes; Werker & Tees, 1984) or visual processing (Kelly et al, 2007;Krasotkina et al, 2021;Weikum et al, 2007), but may occur to some extent in all modalities.…”

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The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study

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Ilyka,

Duda‐Goławska

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Humans pay special attention to faces and speech from birth, but the interplay of developmental processes leading to specialization is poorly understood. We investigated the effects of face orientation on audiovisual (AV) speech perception in two age groups of infants (younger: 5‐ to 6.5‐month‐olds; older: 9‐ to 10.5‐month‐olds) and adults. We recorded event‐related potentials (ERP) in response to videos of upright and inverted faces producing /ba/ articulation dubbed with auditory syllables that were either matching /ba/ or mismatching /ga/ the mouth movement. We observed an increase in the amplitude of audiovisual mismatch response (AVMMR) to incongruent visual /ba/‐auditory /ga/ syllable in comparison to other stimuli in younger infants, while the older group of infants did not show a similar response. AV mismatch response to inverted visual /ba/‐auditory /ga/ stimulus relative to congruent stimuli was also detected in the right frontal areas in the younger group and the left and right frontal areas in adults. We show that face configuration affects the neural response to AV mismatch differently across all age groups. The novel finding of the AVMMR in response to inverted incongruent AV speech may potentially imply the featural face processing in younger infants and adults when processing inverted faces articulating incongruent speech. The lack of visible differential responses to upright and inverted incongruent stimuli obtained in the older group of infants suggests a likely functional cortical reorganization in the processing of AV speech.

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The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study

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Ilyka,

Duda‐Goławska

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“…The present study provides further evidence of strong interactions between face and speech processing during early child development. Previous studies have already demonstrated that face and speech processing specialize at a similar time and that they interact with each other (Clerc et al., 2022; Hillairet de Boisferon et al., 2021; Krasotkina et al., 2021). However, our study shows for the first time that those interactions also influence the social learning behavior in further child development.…”

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Older infants' social learning behavior under uncertainty is modulated by the interaction of face and speech processing

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Evertz,

Krasotkina

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The origin of face or language influences infants' perceptual processing and social learning behavior. However, it remains unclear how infants' social learning behavior is affected when both information are provided simultaneously. Hence, the current study investigated whether and how infants' social learning in terms of gaze following is influenced by face race and language origin of an interaction partner in an uncertain situation. Our sample consisted of 91 Caucasian infants from German speaking families. They were divided into 2 age groups: Younger infants were 5‐ to 8‐month‐old (n = 46) and the older infants 11‐ to 20‐month‐old (n = 45). We used a modified online version of the gaze following paradigm by Xiao and colleagues by varying face race (Caucasian, and Asian faces) and language (German and French) of a female actor. We recorded infants looking behavior via webcam and coded it offline. Our results revealed that older but not younger infants were biased to follow the gaze of own‐race adults speaking their native language. Our findings show that older infants are clearly influenced by adults' ethnicity and language in social learning situations of uncertainty.

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“…During their first months of life, human infants are capable to discriminate a wide variety of non-native stimuli but loose this ability by the end of the first year. This counterintuitive developmental pattern of perception is known as perceptual narrowing and has been described for speech sounds, faces ( Kuhl et al, 2006 ; Krasotkina et al, 2021 ) and music ( Hannon and Trehub, 2005 ). For instance, 6-to-8 but not 10-to-12 months old English infants were capable to discriminate non-native phonemic contrasts ( Werker and Tees, 1984 ).…”

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Faces and Voices Processing in Human and Primate Brains: Rhythmic and Multimodal Mechanisms Underlying the Evolution and Development of Speech

2022

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While influential works since the 1970s have widely assumed that imitation is an innate skill in both human and non-human primate neonates, recent empirical studies and meta-analyses have challenged this view, indicating other forms of reward-based learning as relevant factors in the development of social behavior. The visual input translation into matching motor output that underlies imitation abilities instead seems to develop along with social interactions and sensorimotor experience during infancy and childhood. Recently, a new visual stream has been identified in both human and non-human primate brains, updating the dual visual stream model. This third pathway is thought to be specialized for dynamics aspects of social perceptions such as eye-gaze, facial expression and crucially for audio-visual integration of speech. Here, we review empirical studies addressing an understudied but crucial aspect of speech and communication, namely the processing of visual orofacial cues (i.e., the perception of a speaker’s lips and tongue movements) and its integration with vocal auditory cues. Along this review, we offer new insights from our understanding of speech as the product of evolution and development of a rhythmic and multimodal organization of sensorimotor brain networks, supporting volitional motor control of the upper vocal tract and audio-visual voices-faces integration.

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Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains in infancy: A longitudinal approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study

The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study

Older infants' social learning behavior under uncertainty is modulated by the interaction of face and speech processing

Faces and Voices Processing in Human and Primate Brains: Rhythmic and Multimodal Mechanisms Underlying the Evolution and Development of Speech

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