Listen to Your Mother!: The Role of Talker Familiarity in Infant Streaming

Autor/inn/en	Barker, Brittan A.; Newman, Rochelle S.
Titel	Listen to Your Mother!: The Role of Talker Familiarity in Infant Streaming
Quelle	In: Cognition, 94 (2004) 2, (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2004.06.001
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Familiarity; Infants; Cues; Acoustics; Infant Behavior; Listening + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Stichwort; Akustik; Hörvorgang; Zuhören
Abstract	Little is known about the acoustic cues infants might use to selectively attend to one talker in the presence of background noise. This study examined the role of talker familiarity as a possible cue. Infants either heard their own mothers (maternal-voice condition) or a different infant's mother (novel-voice condition) repeating isolated words while a female distracter voice spoke fluently in the background. Subsequently, infants heard passages produced by the target voice containing either the familiarized, target words or novel words. Infants in the maternal-voice condition listened significantly longer to the passages containing familiar words; infants in the novel-voice condition showed no preference. These results suggest that infants are able to separate the simultaneous speech of two women when one of the voices is highly familiar to them. However, infants seem to find separating the simultaneous speech of two unfamiliar women extremely difficult. (Author).
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