Mothers say “baby” and their newborns do not choose to listen: a behavioral preference study to compare with ERP results
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Previously published results from neonatal brain evoked response potential (ERP) experiments revealed different brain responses to the single word "baby" depending on whether it was recorded by the mother or an unfamiliar female. These results are consistent with behavioral preference studies in which infants altered pacifier sucking to contingently activate recordings of the maternal vs. an unfamiliar female voice, but the speech samples were much longer and information-rich than in the ERP studies. Both types of neonatal voice recognition studies imply postnatal retention of prenatal learning. The preference studies require infant motor and motivation systems to mount a response in addition to voice recognition. The current contingent sucking preference study was designed to test neonatal motivation to alter behavior when the reward is the single word "baby" recorded by the mother or an unfamiliar speaker. Results showed an absent or weak contingent sucking response to the brief maternal voice sample, and they demonstrate the complementary value of electrophysiological and behavioral studies for very early development. Neonates can apparently recognize the maternal voice in brief recorded sample (previous ERP results) but they are not sufficiently motivated by it to alter sucking behavior.
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Three-day-old infants can identify their mother's voice versus another woman's voice.
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- Authors
- Moon, C., Zernzach, R. C., & Kuhl, P. K.
- Affiliations
- Pacific Lutheran University (US)
- Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Moon, Christine
- ORCID
- Kuhl, Patricia K.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2015-03-25
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 153-153
- ISSN
- 1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4373280
- OpenAlex
- W1988158575
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 32
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- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2015: 4
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- National Institutes of Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD037954, U54HD083091)
- Madigan Army Medical Center
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- maternal voice, neonates, pacifier sucking, behavioral preferences, event-related potentials, voice familiarity
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