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Infant Preference for Audiovisual Synchrony in Language
Newborns demonstrate an early capacity for multimodal language processing by showing a preference for faces whose movements are synchronized with audible speech. This suggests an innate ability to link the visual and auditory components of language.
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Infant Preference for Audiovisual Synchrony in Language
A research study finds that newborns whose mothers frequently read a specific story aloud during the final trimester of pregnancy show a distinct preference for that story over a new one after birth, as measured by changes in their sucking patterns. What is the most accurate conclusion to draw from this finding regarding the initial stages of language acquisition?
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An experiment is conducted where a newborn infant is seated in front of two video screens. Screen A displays a person speaking, with the audio perfectly matching the lip movements. Screen B displays the same person speaking the same words, but the audio is slightly delayed, causing a mismatch between the sound and the lip movements. An eye-tracker measures how long the infant looks at each screen. Which outcome would you predict, and what is the most accurate interpretation of that outcome?
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