Results: Infants Exposed to Lemur Vocalizations Preferred the Novel Test Image
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The overall goal of this procedure is to identify the effects of experience in shaping infants'early links between sounds and core cognitive processes. This method can help answer key questions in the field of infant cognition. For example, how do
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At 3-4 months, listening to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations boosts infants' cognition; by 6 months, only human vocalizations exert this cognitive advantage. We describe an exposure manipulation that reveals the powerful shaping role of experience as infants specify which sounds to link to cognition and which to tune out.