Sound localization in newborn human infants

Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Fenwick, Kimberley D.; Hillier, Loretta M.; Chance, G. W.

doi:10.1002/dev.420270805

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“…In general, use of auditory perception for action has been a neglected research area in the ecological tradition (but see Russell & Turvey, 1999). The present findings corroborate the results of previous studies that newborns and older infants can differentiate between auditory information from left versus right (e.g., Morrongiello & Rocca, 1987;Muir & Field, 1979;Muir et al, 1999;Perris & Clifton, 1988;Wertheimer, 1961), and that they from the age of about six months can localize auditory information for reaching up to 12-14° precisely (Ashmead et al, 1987;Morrongiello, 1988;Morrongiello et al, 1994). The findings are also in agreement with studies where the task for the infant was to find its way to mum or an object around obstacles with the help of visual perception (e.g., Caruso, 1993;Hazen et al, 1978;Lockman, 1984;McKenzie & Bigelow, 1986;Pick, 1993;.…”

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Auditory Guided Arm and Whole Body Movements in Young Infants

Meer¹,

Weel²

2011

Advances in Sound Localization

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Section: The Role Of Auditory Information In Guiding Whole Body Movemsupporting

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Auditory Guided Arm and Whole Body Movements in Young Infants

Meer¹,

Weel²

2011

Advances in Sound Localization

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“…In infants, orienting is most commonly assessed by spontaneous motor and psychophysiological responses: e.g., localized head turning (Clarkson and Berg, 1983; Morrongiello et al, 1994), or changes in the heart rate (Clarkson and Berg, 1983; Richards and Casey, 1991). Sometimes such parameters as behavioral inhibition, motor quieting, and eye widening are also used in assessing the responsiveness of newborns (Gomes et al, 2000).…”

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Separating acoustic deviance from novelty during the first year of life: a review of event-related potential evidence

Kushnerenko¹,

Bergh²,

Winkler³

2013

Front. Psychol.

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Orienting to salient events in the environment is a first step in the development of attention in young infants. Electrophysiological studies have indicated that in newborns and young infants, sounds with widely distributed spectral energy, such as noise and various environmental sounds, as well as sounds widely deviating from their context elicit an event-related potential (ERP) similar to the adult P3a response. We discuss how the maturation of event-related potentials parallels the process of the development of passive auditory attention during the first year of life. Behavioral studies have indicated that the neonatal orientation to high-energy stimuli gradually changes to attending to genuine novelty and other significant events by approximately 9 months of age. In accordance with these changes, in newborns, the ERP response to large acoustic deviance is dramatically larger than that to small and moderate deviations. This ERP difference, however, rapidly decreases within first months of life and the differentiation of the ERP response to genuine novelty from that to spectrally rich but repeatedly presented sounds commences during the same period. The relative decrease of the response amplitudes elicited by high-energy stimuli may reflect development of an inhibitory brain network suppressing the processing of uninformative stimuli. Based on data obtained from healthy full-term and pre-term infants as well as from infants at risk for various developmental problems, we suggest that the electrophysiological indices of the processing of acoustic and contextual deviance may be indicative of the functioning of auditory attention, a crucial prerequisite of learning and language development.

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“…The outcomes of these studies concurrently suggest that infants are able to change behaviors according to different sound conditions. For instance, newborns, and young infants are able to turn their heads toward a sound source (Chun et al, 1960; Siqueland and Lipsitt, 1966; Clifton et al, 1972; Muir and Field, 1979; Morrongiello and Fenwick, 1994). The most common explanation for this phenomenon is that newborns are born with some mechanism specific for turning to sound or for sound localization as a kind of innate reaction ability.…”

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Early influence of auditory stimuli on upper-limb movements in young human infants: an overview

Ferronato¹,

Domellöf

Rönnqvist

2014

Front. Psychol.

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Given that the auditory system is rather well developed at the end of the third trimester of pregnancy, it is likely that couplings between acoustics and motor activity can be integrated as early as at the beginning of postnatal life. The aim of the present mini-review was to summarize and discuss studies on early auditory-motor integration, focusing particularly on upper-limb movements (one of the most crucial means to interact with the environment) in association with auditory stimuli, to develop further understanding of their significance with regard to early infant development. Many studies have investigated the relationship between various infant behaviors (e.g., sucking, visual fixation, head turning) and auditory stimuli, and established that human infants can be observed displaying couplings between action and environmental sensory stimulation already from just after birth, clearly indicating a propensity for intentional behavior. Surprisingly few studies, however, have investigated the associations between upper-limb movements and different auditory stimuli in newborns and young infants, infants born at risk for developmental disorders/delays in particular. Findings from studies of early auditory-motor interaction support that the developing integration of sensory and motor systems is a fundamental part of the process guiding the development of goal-directed action in infancy, of great importance for continued motor, perceptual, and cognitive development. At-risk infants (e.g., those born preterm) may display increasing central auditory processing disorders, negatively affecting early sensory-motor integration, and resulting in long-term consequences on gesturing, language development, and social communication. Consequently, there is a need for more studies on such implications.

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Sound localization in newborn human infants

Cited by 34 publications

References 47 publications

Auditory Guided Arm and Whole Body Movements in Young Infants

Auditory Guided Arm and Whole Body Movements in Young Infants

Separating acoustic deviance from novelty during the first year of life: a review of event-related potential evidence

Early influence of auditory stimuli on upper-limb movements in young human infants: an overview

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