Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
infants, intermodal perception, canine facial expressions, canine vocalizations
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Psychology
Abstract
Several studies have shown that in the first months of life, infants discriminate faces and speech sounds under a diverse range of conditions. These results suggest that infants’ capacity to discriminate faces and speech sounds changes over the course of development: Younger, but not older, infants discriminate a wider range of speech sounds and faces. Finally, studies have also shown that if infants do not continue to receive exposure to a particular language or the faces of a given species, infants may lose the ability to discriminate those speech sounds or faces. (Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Werker & Tees, 1984; Fagan, 1972; Kleiner, 1987; Mauer & Young, 1983; Pascalis & de Schonen, 1994)
Recommended Citation
Jones, Jacob and Flom, Dr. Ross
(2013)
"Infants’ Intermodal Perception of Canine (Canis familairis) Facial Expressions and Vocalizations,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 534.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/534