Fourteen full-term, healthy, three-month-old infants were observed during a total of 15 minutes spontaneous face-to-face interaction with their mothers. Facial and manual actions, gaze direction and… (More)
The fundamental frequency F0 patterns of maternal-speech addressed to infants aged 0;3-0;4 were measured quantitatively. Speech samples were recorded when six Japanese-speaking mothers addressed an… (More)
A total of 48 male infants experienced either conversational turn-taking or random responsiveness of their mothers when aged 0;3 and 0;4. In both periods, the infant's rate of vocalizing was not… (More)
Discriminant analysis was used to distinguish statistically between the comfort-state vocalizations uttered by Japanese infants following 5 different types of pitch contours of maternal speech.… (More)
There are conflicting hypotheses for the causes of Dyslexia in reading and writing difficulties, such as the phonological deficit hypothesis, double deficit hypothesis, magnocellular deficits… (More)
Female hormones affect perception, cognition and mental condition of women in the menstrual cycle and menopause. However, how menopause affects colour perception, and whether mental condition,… (More)