Do babies perceive cries as speech?

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dc.contributor.authorLucarini, Gaia
dc.contributor.authorCruz-Pavía, Irene de la
dc.contributor.authorGemignani, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorNallet, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorLapillonne Alexandre
dc.contributor.authorGervain, Judit
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T08:41:51Z
dc.date.available2026-08-06T08:41:51Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.date.updated2026-08-06T08:41:51Z
dc.description.abstractSpeech perception and production are linked in adults. Since infants show sophisticated speech perception abilities before they produce language, the link has been assumed to emerge with development. However, crying is a communication signal that infants produce from birth and their cry melodies are modulated by prenatally heard speech. Cries and speech may thus be developmentally continuous, and the production-perception link may be most evident early in life for cries. We therefore examined whether newborns perceive cries similarly to speech. French neonates exposed to French cries and French speech showed greater neural responses to cries than to speech in the right temporal region. By contrast, Italian adults unfamiliar with French responded more strongly to speech than to cries. Newborns’ heightened response to a communicative signal that is less familiar and acoustically less complex, but one they can produce suggests that vocal production and auditory perception may be linked from birth.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant “BabyRhythm" no. 773202, the FARE grant no. R204MPRHKE from the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research, the "SYNPHONIA" project (Grant Nos. CLP: PNRR-MAD 2022-12376739 and CUP: C63C22001320007) funded by the European Union Next Generation EU (Grant. No. PNRRM6C2, Investment 2.1 “Enhancement and strengthening of biomedical research in the NHS”), the PRIN grant no. 2022WX3FM5 (CUP:C53D23004290006) from the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research to J Gervain; the Grant RYC2021–03395-I funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR, the Basque Foundation for Science Ikerbasque to IdlCP; and the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship EF-ST“BabyMindReader”101031716 awarded by the European Commission to JGen
dc.identifier.citationLucarini, G., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gemignani, J., Nallet, C., Lapillonne, A., & Gervain, J. (2026). Do babies perceive cries as speech? Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.DCN.2026.101782
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/J.DCN.2026.101782
dc.identifier.eissn1878-9307
dc.identifier.issn1878-9293
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/6478
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.rights© 2026 The Authors
dc.subject.otherAdults
dc.subject.otherCry perception
dc.subject.otherFNIRS
dc.subject.otherNewborns
dc.subject.otherSpeech perception
dc.titleDo babies perceive cries as speech?en
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.titleDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience
oaire.citation.volume81
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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