Who's my little monkey? Effects of infant-directed speech on visual retention in infant rhesus macaques.

ABSTRACT: Both human and nonhuman primate adults use infant-directed facial and vocal expressions across many contexts when interacting with infants (e.g., feeding, playing). This infant-oriented style of communication, known as infant-directed speech (IDS), seems to benefit human infants in numerous ways, including facilitating language acquisition. Given the variety of contexts in which adults use IDS, we hypothesized that IDS supports learning beyond the linguistic domain and that these benefits may extend to nonhuman primates. We exposed 2.5-month-old rhesus macaque infants (N = 15) to IDS, adult-directed speech (ADS), and a non-social control (CTR) during a video presentation of unrelated stimuli. After a 5- or 60-minute delay, infants were shown the familiar video side-by-side with a novel vid

SUBMITTER: Slonecker EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5491378 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature