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- Age range: 2 to 4 months
- Developmental pillar:
- Physical and Brain Development
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning and Cognitive Development
- Communication and Language Development
- Physical and Brain Development: How children develop
- Social and Emotional Development: How children feel and connect
- Learning and Cognitive Development: How children think and learn
- Communication and Language Development: How children communicate
Young infants are also capable of relating what they hear with what they see. One study tested two-month-old infants’ ability to tell the difference between faces that matched sounds that the infants heard and faces that did not match. Infants reliably looked longer at the face that matched the sounds it produced. Even at very young ages, infants are beginning to use a variety of sensory information to make sense of the world.
References
- Gibson, E. J., & Walker, A.. S. (1984). Development of knowledge of visual-tactual affordances of substance. Child Development, 55(2), 453-460. (SSCI: 92)
- Kuhl, P. K., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1984). The intermodal representation of speech in infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 7, 361
- Meltzoff, A. N., & Borton, R. W. (1979). Intermodal matching by human neonates. Nature, 282(5737), 403
- Patterson, M. L., & Werker, J. F. (2003). Two-month-old infants match phonetic information in lips and voice. Developmental Science, 6(2), 191

