The Cocktail Party Effect in Infants Revisited: Listening to One's Name in Noise

Autor/in	Newman, Rochelle S.
Titel	The Cocktail Party Effect in Infants Revisited: Listening to One's Name in Noise
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 41 (2005) 2, S.352-362 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Infants; Attention Span; Acoustics; Recognition (Psychology); Speech Acts; Listening Comprehension; Infant Behavior; Familiarity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Akustik; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Sprechakt; Hörverständnis
Abstract	This study examined infants' abilities to separate speech from different talkers and to recognize a familiar word (the infant's own name) in the context of noise. In 4 experiments, infants heard repetitions of either their names or unfamiliar names in the presence of background babble. Five-month-old infants listened longer to their names when the target voice was 10 dB, but not 5 dB, more intense than the background. Nine-month-olds likewise failed to identify their names at a 5-dB signal-to-noise ratio, but 13-month-olds succeeded. Thus, by 5 months, infants possess some capacity to selectively attend to an interesting voice in the context of competing distractor voices. However, this ability is quite limited and develops further when infants near 1 year of age. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10