Dr Gemma Taylor G.Taylor4@salford.ac.uk
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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health
Taylor, G; Slade, P; Herbert, JS
Authors
P Slade
JS Herbert
Abstract
Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants’ interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.
Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants’ experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers’ maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces.
Citation
Taylor, G., Slade, P., & Herbert, J. (2014). Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health. Infant Behavior and Development, 37(4), 597-605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.002
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 11, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 3, 2014 |
Publication Date | Sep 3, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Oct 17, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 20, 2016 |
Journal | Infant Behavior and Development |
Print ISSN | 0163-6383 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 597-605 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.002 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.002 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/infant-behavior-and-development/ |
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