Auditory observation of infant-directed speech by mothers: Experience-dependent interaction between language and emotion in the basal ganglia
Adults address infants with a special speech register known as infant-directed speech (IDS), which conveys both linguistic and emotional information through its characteristic lexicon and exaggerated prosody (e.g., higher pitched, slower, and hyperarticulated). Although caregivers are known to regul...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00907/full |