Journal
CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 65-70Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12064
Keywords
narrowing; face; speech
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD046526] Funding Source: Medline
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From the beginning of life, face and language processing are crucial for establishing social communication. Studies on the development of systems for processing faces and language have yielded such similarities as perceptual narrowing across both domains. In this article, we review several functions of human communication, and then describe how the tools used to accomplish those functions are modified by perceptual narrowing. We conclude that narrowing is common to all forms of social communication. We argue that during evolution, social communication engaged different perceptual and cognitive systemsface, facial expression, gesture, vocalization, sound, and oral languagethat emerged at different times. These systems are interactive and linked to some extent. In this framework, narrowing can be viewed as a way infants adapt to their native social group.
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