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Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter
Colaughter–simultaneous laughter between two or more individuals–allows listeners across different cultures and languages to quickly evaluate affiliation within a social group. We examined whether infants are sensitive to acoustic information in colaughter that indicates affiliation, specifically wh...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6411856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30858390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38954-4 |
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description | Colaughter–simultaneous laughter between two or more individuals–allows listeners across different cultures and languages to quickly evaluate affiliation within a social group. We examined whether infants are sensitive to acoustic information in colaughter that indicates affiliation, specifically whether they can differentiate colaughter between friends and colaughter between strangers. In the first experiment, infants who heard alternating trials of colaughter between friends and strangers listened longer to colaughter between friends. In the second experiment, we examined whether infants were sensitive to the social context that was appropriate for each type of colaughter. Infants heard colaughter between friends and colaughter between strangers preceded by a silent visual scene depicting one of two different social contexts: either two people affiliating or turning away from each other. Infants looked longer when the social scene was incongruent with the type of colaughter. By 5 months, infants preferentially listen to colaughter between friends and detect when colaughter does not match the valence of a social interaction. The ability to rapidly evaluate acoustic features in colaughter that reveal social relationships between novel individuals appears early in human infancy and might be the product of an adaptive affiliation detection system that uses vocal cues. |
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spelling | pubmed-64118562019-03-13 Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter Vouloumanos, Athena Bryant, Gregory A. Sci Rep Article Colaughter–simultaneous laughter between two or more individuals–allows listeners across different cultures and languages to quickly evaluate affiliation within a social group. We examined whether infants are sensitive to acoustic information in colaughter that indicates affiliation, specifically whether they can differentiate colaughter between friends and colaughter between strangers. In the first experiment, infants who heard alternating trials of colaughter between friends and strangers listened longer to colaughter between friends. In the second experiment, we examined whether infants were sensitive to the social context that was appropriate for each type of colaughter. Infants heard colaughter between friends and colaughter between strangers preceded by a silent visual scene depicting one of two different social contexts: either two people affiliating or turning away from each other. Infants looked longer when the social scene was incongruent with the type of colaughter. By 5 months, infants preferentially listen to colaughter between friends and detect when colaughter does not match the valence of a social interaction. The ability to rapidly evaluate acoustic features in colaughter that reveal social relationships between novel individuals appears early in human infancy and might be the product of an adaptive affiliation detection system that uses vocal cues. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6411856/ /pubmed/30858390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38954-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Vouloumanos, Athena Bryant, Gregory A. Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title | Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title_full | Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title_fullStr | Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title_full_unstemmed | Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title_short | Five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
title_sort | five-month-old infants detect affiliation in colaughter |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6411856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30858390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38954-4 |
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