The rhythms &amp; sounds of soothing: Maternal vestibular, tactile, &amp; auditory stimulation and infant state

Fernald, Anne; Kermanschachi, Nilofar; Lees, Deborah

doi:10.1016/s0163-6383(84)80176-9

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“…The intonation of ID speech has been shown to effectively engage infant interest (Kuhl, Coffey‐Corina, Padden & Dawson, 2005). Finally, mothers reliably use falling pitch contours in speech to infants when trying to soothe (Fernald, Kermanschachi & Lees, 1984) and rising pitch contours when trying to engage infant attention (in a social interaction) (Stern, Spieker & MacKain, 1982). These data have led to the idea that maternal prosody is finely tuned to infant attention and arousal level (Fernald, 1985) and can be used to modulate infant motivational states.…”

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Thinking outside the cortex: social motivation in the evolution and development of language

Syal

Finlay

2010

Developmental Science

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Alteration of the organization of social and motivational neuroanatomical circuitry must have been an essential step in the evolution of human language. Development of vocal communication across species, particularly birdsong, and new research on the neural organization and evolution of social and motivational circuitry, together suggest that human language is the result of an obligatory link of a powerful cortico-striatal learning system, and subcortical socio-motivational circuitry.

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Section: Social Motivation In Human Language Learningmentioning

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Thinking outside the cortex: social motivation in the evolution and development of language

Syal

Finlay

2010

Developmental Science

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“…When adults speak to infants, they typically produce utterances that have prosodic features that are dissimilar to those produced in conversations among adults (Snow & Ferguson, 1977). Many studies have examined the physical characteristics of this infant-directed (ID) speech and the cultural and interactional contexts in which various ID speech patterns are used by parents (Fernald, 1989; Fernald, Kermanschachi, & Lees, 1984; Fernald & Simon, 1984; Fernald et al, 1989; Papousek, Papousek, & Haekel, 1987; Papousek, Papousek, & Symmes, 1991; Stern, Spieker, & MacKain, 1982). To date, prosodic differences (including differences in mean fundamental frequency [F 0 ], frequency range, and duration) between ID and adult-directed (AD) speech have been empirically documented in French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and English (Fernald et al, 1989; Grieser & Kuhl, 1988), among other languages.…”

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“…Studies of parents’ ID speech have revealed that specific prosodic patterns are more likely to occur in certain interactional contexts than in others. Parents are more likely to use low-frequency vocalizations with falling frequency contours to soothe fussy infants, whereas they are more likely to use higher frequency, rising contours to elicit a response or attention from an infant or when interacting with infants expressing positive affect (Fernald et al, 1984; Papousek, Papousek, & Bornstein, 1985; Stern et al, 1982). These findings suggest that parents modify their ID speech as a function of the infant’s behaviors and affective state, creating opportunities for infants to learn that their behavioral or emotional responses elicit different vocal responses from caregivers.…”

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Six-month-olds' categorization of natural infant-directed utterances.

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Katz³

1997

Developmental Psychology

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In this study, the authors demonstrated that 6-month-old infants are able to categorize natural, 650 Hz low-pass filtered infant-directed utterances. In Experiment 1, 24 male and 24 female infants heard 7 different tokens from 1 class of utterance (comforting or approving). Then, some infants heard a novel test stimulus from the familiar class of tokens; others heard a test stimulus from the unfamiliar class. Infants categorized these tokens as evidenced by response recovery to tokens from the unfamiliar class but not to novel tokens from the familiar class. Experiment 2 confirmed that the infants were able to discriminate between closely matched tokens from within each category, supporting the conclusion that the results of Experiment 1 indicated categorization. The authors discuss both a mechanism that might explain the development of this ability and the mutual adaptation seen in parent-infant communication.

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“…In this intercommunicative context, as far as the sound 'quality' (pitch) is concerned, research has shown that adults use rising pitch contours (motherese) to engage and alert infants (Stern, Spieker, & MacKain, 1982) and falling pitch contours to soothe distress (Fernald, Kermanschachi, & Lees, 1984;Papousek & Papousek, 1984). It has been also found that infants prefer a happy voice quality to vocal modes of speech or singing, paying more attention to the presented stimulus, regardless of age (Corbeil, Trehub, & Peretz, 2013).…”

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Investigating heart rate and rhythm changes in an infant’s music education course: A case study

Papatzikis

Papatziki

2015

Psychology of Music

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Music research focusing on infants shows that there are functional specializations for music processing in the human brain, and that, for infants and toddlers, music education starting at an early stage is important in their development. However, research has not yet provided solid evidence on what developmental (biopsychological) potential the educational 'tools' used in these kind of settings may carry, considering that these settings or educational practices constantly vary. This study focuses on the musical elements of tempo (rhythmical pace) and beat (sound impulse), and investigates the way these are handled by an educator in a formally structured early years (0-2) music education course of seven episodes. The study also examines how two different age groups of participants biologically perceive the specific aforementioned rhythmical elements. In contradiction to relevant communication theories and the hypothesis followed in this study, results show no significant differences in the way the specific educator handles rhythm for the two groups, following a similarly increasing trajectory of rhythmical development for each session per group. Additionally, there were no significant differences in the way the infants physiologically reacted to the above rhythmical handling, presenting an overall increasing heart rate trajectory.

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The rhythms & sounds of soothing: Maternal vestibular, tactile, & auditory stimulation and infant state

Cited by 10 publications

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Thinking outside the cortex: social motivation in the evolution and development of language

Thinking outside the cortex: social motivation in the evolution and development of language

Six-month-olds' categorization of natural infant-directed utterances.

Investigating heart rate and rhythm changes in an infant’s music education course: A case study

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