title: Perception of Multisensory Gender Coherence in 6- and 9-month-old Infants.
abstract: One of the most salient social categories conveyed by human faces and voices is gender. We investigated the developmental emergence of the ability to perceive the coherence of auditory and visual attributes of gender in 6- and 9-month-old infants. Infants viewed two side-by-side video clips of a man and a woman singing a nursery rhyme and heard a synchronous male or female soundtrack. Results showed that 6-month-old infants did not match the audible and visible attributes of gender, and 9-month-old infants matched only female faces and voices. These findings indicate that the ability to perceive the multisensory coherence of gender emerges relatively late in infancy and that it reflects the greater experience that most infants have with female faces and voices.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS-UMR 5105, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Anne Hillairet
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: de Boisferon
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS-UMR 5105, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dupierrix
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS-UMR 5105, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lœvenbruck
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lewkowicz
authors.affiliation: Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS-UMR 5105, Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pascalis
keywords: Audio-visual speech; Gender perception; Infants; Multisensory perception