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Individual recognition of human infants on the basis of cries alone

Green, James A., Gustafson, Gwene E.·1983·Developmental Psychobiology
DOI 10.1002/dev.420160604
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Human parents were asked to identify their infants on the basis of tape‐recorded cries that they had not previously heard. The cries of twenty 30‐day‐old infants were recorded just prior to a feeding, then rerecorded onto a test tape containing cries from three other infants. Eighty percent of mothers were able to recognize their infants's cries, as were 45% of fathers. An additional 140 adults (non‐‐parents) were tested in order to determine if the process of dubbing cries into test tapes had left extraneous auditory cues to infants' identities and if the foil infants were equally discriminable. The results indicated that parents' recognition was not based on extraneous cues and that, overall, the foils were appropriate distractors in the parents' task. Thus, the majority of parents can recognize their 30‐day‐old infants on the sole basis of acoustic cues contained in the infants' cries. The acoustic features that underlie this recognition are now being investigated.

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  • Mothers demonstrate a unique ability to recognize different sensory cues from their own babies, including visual, auditory, or olfactory cues.

    “Starting from the early post-partum period, mothers demonstrate a unique ability to recognize different sensory cues from their own babies, including visual (1;2), auditory (3) or olfactory (4) cues.”

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Authors
Green, J. A., & Gustafson, G. E.
Affiliations
Northern Illinois University (US)
Corresponding author
Green, James A.
Venue
Developmental Psychobiology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1983-11
Volume
16
Issue
6
Pages
485-493
ISSN
  • 0012-1630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-2302
DOI
10.1002/dev.420160604
OpenAlex
W2136945193
Cited by
50
References
21
Citations by year
2020: 1 · 2019: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
4.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 7652 d)
Locations
  • Developmental Psychobiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Infant Health and Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Keywords
infant cry recognition, individual recognition, acoustic cues, infant vocalizations, maternal recognition, foil, neonates
MeSH terms
Auditory Perception, Birth Order, Crying, Cues, Father-Child Relations, Fathers, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Psychoacoustics

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