"Did You Call Me?'' 5-Month-Old Infants Own Name Guides Their Attention
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Plos OnePlace of Publication
San FranciscoType
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PLoS ONEPublication Volume
5Date
2010
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An infant's own name is a unique social cue. Infants are sensitive to their own name by 4 months of age, but whether they use their names as a social cue is unknown. Electroencephalogram (EEG) was measured as infants heard their own name or stranger's names and while looking at novel objects. Event related brain potentials (ERPs) in response to names revealed that infants differentiate their own name from stranger names from the first phoneme. The amplitude of the ERPs to objects indicated that infants attended more to objects after hearing their own names compared to another name. Thus, by 5 months of age infants not only detect their name, but also use it as a social cue to guide their attention to events and objects in the world.Publisher link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014208identifiers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014208ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014208
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