The literature on infants' perception of facial and vocal expressions, combined with data from
studies on infant-directed speech, mother–infant interaction, and social referencing …

Purpose: Interacting with others by reading their emotional expressions is an essential
social skill in humans. How this ability develops during infancy and what brain processes …

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but
this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being" blank slates" that …

This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the
communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech …

The chapter begins by addressing the theoretical platform endorsed by the authors that
consists of an integration of functionalist perspectives with dynamic systems and social …

Emotions are expressed in the voice as well as on the face. As a first step to explore the
question of their integration, we used a bimodal perception situation modelled after the …

This study assessed an intersensory redundancy hypothesis, which holds that in early
infancy information presented redundantly and in temporal synchrony across two sense …

The most familiar emotional signals consist of faces, voices, and whole-body expressions,
but so far research on emotions expressed by the whole body is sparse. The authors …

In a series of 5 auditory preference experiments, 120 5‐month‐old infants were presented
with Approval and Prohibition vocalizations in infant‐directed (ID) and adult‐directed (AD) …

In recent yuears the infant's ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion has attracted
considerable attention from developmental psychologists. The rationale guiding much of this …