Habituation, sensitization, and infants' responses to motherse speech
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Four‐month‐old infants were tested for their visual responses to infant‐directed (ID) speech versus adult‐directed (AD) speech in a fixed‐trial habituation procedure. In Experiment I, infants looked significantly longer in response to a 4 × 4 checkerboard pattern that was compounded with an ID speech segment than an AD speech segment. Looking times increased significantly between the first and second presentations of the ID speech segment only. In Experiment II, infants looked slightly more during ID than AD trials when the two were alternated from trial to trial. Responding to the first AD speech segment was significantly greater than when it was preceded by ID speech than when it was not, while responding to the first ID speech segment was significantly less when it was preceded by AD speech than when it was not. These findings are discussed in relation to the hypothesized differential arousing properties of ID and AD speech. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Sensitization is thought to be important in engaging deeper levels of processing in response to communicative cues, including the facilitation of learning by infant-directed speech.
“Sensitization is thought to be important in engaging deeper levels of processing in response to communicative cues, including the facilitation of learning by infant-directed speech [34, 35].”
Sensitization is thought to be important in engaging deeper levels of processing and has been implicated in the facilitation of learning by infant-directed speech.
“Sensitization is thought to be important in engaging deeper levels of processing and has been implicated in the facilitation of learning by infant-directed speech [34, 35].”
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- Authors
- Kaplan, P. S., Goldstein, M. H., Huckeby, E. R., & Cooper, R. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- Virginia Tech (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kaplan, Peter S.
- Venue
- Developmental Psychobiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-01
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-57
- ISSN
- 0012-1630 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-2302
- OpenAlex
- W2138732484
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 3.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Psychobiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01hd019143-09)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 19143)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- infant-directed speech, adult-directed speech, habituation, sensitization, looking time, four-month-old infants
- MeSH terms
- Child Development, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Infant, Mother-Child Relations, Speech
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