
Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech.
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Kaplan, PS; Bachorowski, J-A; Smoski, MJ; Hudenko, WJ
Published in: Psychol Sci
May 2002
Depressed mothers use less of the exaggerated prosody that is typical of infant-directed (ID) speech than do nondepressed mothers. We investigated the consequences of this reduced perceptual salience in ID speech for infant learning. Infants of nondepressed mothers readily learned that their mothers' speech signaled a face, whereas infants of depressed mothers failed to learn that their mothers' speech signaled the face. Infants of depressed mothers did, however, show strong learning in response to speech produced by an unfamiliar nondepressed mother. These outcomes indicate that the reduced perceptual salience of depressed mothers' ID speech could lead to deficient learning in otherwise competent learners.
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Psychol Sci
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0956-7976
Publication Date
May 2002
Volume
13
Issue
3
Start / End Page
268 / 271
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Speech
- Mother-Child Relations
- Learning
- Infant
- Humans
- Female
- Experimental Psychology
- Depressive Disorder
- Association Learning
- 52 Psychology
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Kaplan, P. S., Bachorowski, J.-A., Smoski, M. J., & Hudenko, W. J. (2002). Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech. Psychol Sci, 13(3), 268–271. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00449
Kaplan, Peter S., Jo-Anne Bachorowski, Moria J. Smoski, and William J. Hudenko. “Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech.” Psychol Sci 13, no. 3 (May 2002): 268–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00449.
Kaplan PS, Bachorowski J-A, Smoski MJ, Hudenko WJ. Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech. Psychol Sci. 2002 May;13(3):268–71.
Kaplan, Peter S., et al. “Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech.” Psychol Sci, vol. 13, no. 3, May 2002, pp. 268–71. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00449.
Kaplan PS, Bachorowski J-A, Smoski MJ, Hudenko WJ. Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech. Psychol Sci. 2002 May;13(3):268–271.

Published In
Psychol Sci
DOI
ISSN
0956-7976
Publication Date
May 2002
Volume
13
Issue
3
Start / End Page
268 / 271
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Speech
- Mother-Child Relations
- Learning
- Infant
- Humans
- Female
- Experimental Psychology
- Depressive Disorder
- Association Learning
- 52 Psychology