Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech.
Early multisensory perceptual experiences shape the abilities of infants to perform socially-relevant visual categorization, such as the extraction of gender, age, and emotion from faces. Here, we investigated whether multisensory perception of gender is influenced by infant-directed (IDS) or adult-...
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| author | Anne-Raphaëlle Richoz Paul C Quinn Anne Hillairet de Boisferon Carole Berger Hélène Loevenbruck David J Lewkowicz Kang Lee Marjorie Dole Roberto Caldara Olivier Pascalis |
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| description | Early multisensory perceptual experiences shape the abilities of infants to perform socially-relevant visual categorization, such as the extraction of gender, age, and emotion from faces. Here, we investigated whether multisensory perception of gender is influenced by infant-directed (IDS) or adult-directed (ADS) speech. Six-, 9-, and 12-month-old infants saw side-by-side silent video-clips of talking faces (a male and a female) and heard either a soundtrack of a female or a male voice telling a story in IDS or ADS. Infants participated in only one condition, either IDS or ADS. Consistent with earlier work, infants displayed advantages in matching female relative to male faces and voices. Moreover, the new finding that emerged in the current study was that extraction of gender from face and voice was stronger at 6 months with ADS than with IDS, whereas at 9 and 12 months, matching did not differ for IDS versus ADS. The results indicate that the ability to perceive gender in audiovisual speech is influenced by speech manner. Our data suggest that infants may extract multisensory gender information developmentally earlier when looking at adults engaged in conversation with other adults (i.e., ADS) than when adults are directly talking to them (i.e., IDS). Overall, our findings imply that the circumstances of social interaction may shape early multisensory abilities to perceive gender. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ac1a1407503432085e5144b7c4c801b2022-12-21T18:34:50ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01121e016932510.1371/journal.pone.0169325Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech.Anne-Raphaëlle RichozPaul C QuinnAnne Hillairet de BoisferonCarole BergerHélène LoevenbruckDavid J LewkowiczKang LeeMarjorie DoleRoberto CaldaraOlivier PascalisEarly multisensory perceptual experiences shape the abilities of infants to perform socially-relevant visual categorization, such as the extraction of gender, age, and emotion from faces. Here, we investigated whether multisensory perception of gender is influenced by infant-directed (IDS) or adult-directed (ADS) speech. Six-, 9-, and 12-month-old infants saw side-by-side silent video-clips of talking faces (a male and a female) and heard either a soundtrack of a female or a male voice telling a story in IDS or ADS. Infants participated in only one condition, either IDS or ADS. Consistent with earlier work, infants displayed advantages in matching female relative to male faces and voices. Moreover, the new finding that emerged in the current study was that extraction of gender from face and voice was stronger at 6 months with ADS than with IDS, whereas at 9 and 12 months, matching did not differ for IDS versus ADS. The results indicate that the ability to perceive gender in audiovisual speech is influenced by speech manner. Our data suggest that infants may extract multisensory gender information developmentally earlier when looking at adults engaged in conversation with other adults (i.e., ADS) than when adults are directly talking to them (i.e., IDS). Overall, our findings imply that the circumstances of social interaction may shape early multisensory abilities to perceive gender.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5218491?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Anne-Raphaëlle Richoz Paul C Quinn Anne Hillairet de Boisferon Carole Berger Hélène Loevenbruck David J Lewkowicz Kang Lee Marjorie Dole Roberto Caldara Olivier Pascalis Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. PLoS ONE |
| title | Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. |
| title_full | Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. |
| title_fullStr | Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. |
| title_short | Audio-Visual Perception of Gender by Infants Emerges Earlier for Adult-Directed Speech. |
| title_sort | audio visual perception of gender by infants emerges earlier for adult directed speech |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5218491?pdf=render |
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