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The temporal coordination of early infant communication.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12952396     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The ability to coordinate expressive behaviors is crucial to the development of social and emotional communication. Coordination involves systematic sequencing of behaviors from two different modalities that have some temporal overlap. A bootstrapping procedure was used to determine whether preverbal 3- and 6-month-old infants sequence vocalizations, gazes at their mothers' faces, and facial expressions into pairs of coordinated patterns nonrandomly. Smiles and frowns were highly coordinated with vocalizations. Smiles were also coordinated with gazes at mothers' faces, which became stronger with age. Vocalizations were not coordinated with gazes at mothers' faces. These findings illustrate the manner in which infants temporally coordinate communicative actions and provide new evidence that facial expressions (particularly smiles) are central to early infant communications.
Authors:
Marygrace E Yale; Daniel S Messinger; Alan B Cobo-Lewis; Christine F Delgado
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Developmental psychology     Volume:  39     ISSN:  0012-1649     ISO Abbreviation:  Dev Psychol     Publication Date:  2003 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2003-09-03     Completed Date:  2003-11-04     Revised Date:  2007-11-14    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0260564     Medline TA:  Dev Psychol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  815-24     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-0721, USA. myale@miami.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Age Factors
Association Learning
Attention
Communication*
Facial Expression
Female
Humans
Infant
Language Development*
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Social Behavior
Time Perception*
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
R01-DC00484/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS; R03-HD38336/HD/NICHD NIH HHS

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