Exploratory dynamics of vocal foraging during infant-caregiver communication.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 06 2020
26 06 2020
Historique:
received:
07
11
2019
accepted:
22
05
2020
entrez:
28
6
2020
pubmed:
28
6
2020
medline:
15
12
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We investigated the hypothesis that infants search in an acoustic space for vocalisations that elicit adult utterances and vice versa, inspired by research on animal and human foraging. Infant-worn recorders were used to collect day-long audio recordings, and infant speech-related and adult vocalisation onsets and offsets were automatically identified. We examined vocalisation-to-vocalisation steps, focusing on inter-vocalisation time intervals and distances in an acoustic space defined by mean pitch and mean amplitude, measured from the child's perspective. Infant inter-vocalisation intervals were shorter immediately following a vocal response from an adult. Adult intervals were shorter following an infant response and adult inter-vocalisation pitch differences were smaller following the receipt of a vocal response from the infant. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that infants and caregivers are foraging vocally for social input. Increasing infant age was associated with changes in inter-vocalisation step sizes for both infants and adults, and we found associations between response likelihood and acoustic characteristics. Future work is needed to determine the impact of different labelling methods and of automatic labelling errors on the results. The study represents a novel application of foraging theory, demonstrating how infant behaviour and infant-caregiver interaction can be characterised as foraging processes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32591549
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66778-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-66778-0
pmc: PMC7319970
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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