Five- and Eight-Month-Old Infants Recognize Their Faces and Voices as Familiar and Social Stimuli.

Legerstee, Maria; Anderson, Diane; Schaffer, Alliza

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ERIC Number: EJ561619

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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Five- and Eight-Month-Old Infants Recognize Their Faces and Voices as Familiar and Social Stimuli.

Legerstee, Maria; Anderson, Diane; Schaffer, Alliza

Child Development, v69 n1 p37-50 Feb 1998

Presented five- and eight-month olds with silent moving and static video images of self, peer, and doll, and sounds of self and nonsocial objects. Found that recognition of one's image develops through experience with dynamic facial stimulation during first eight months. By five months, infants treat their faces and voices as familiar and social stimuli. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants, Perceptual Development, Recognition (Psychology), Stimuli, Visual Stimuli

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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