Contribution of positive affect in infant directed speech: what do amplitude modulations patterns suggest?
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Abstract
Speech perception relies heavily on cortical entrainment of amplitude modulations in speech, which occur at different rates. Following a study by Leong et al. (2017) showing slower modulations have higher power than faster modulations in infant directed speech (IDS), we hypothesized that positive emotions in IDS might drive this pattern. Using the same analyses (spectral amplitude modulation phase hierarchy method and phase synchronization index (PSI) (Leong and Goswami, 2015)), we compared the power of isolated modulation rates (synchronous with neural oscillations) and the synchrony between them in IDS and adult directed speech (ADS), using English stimuli from Many Babies Consortium (Frank et al., 2020). We repeated the same analyses comparing happy and neutral ADS using stimuli of four native English speakers (Pell et al., 2009). Our analysis did not uncover significant power differences between IDS and ADS. However, it revealed happy ADS has higher power at slower rates, with the reversed pattern for neutral ADS (p < 0.001). PSI was higher for two faster rates in neutral ADS (p < 0.0001), as reported by Leong et al. comparing IDS versus ADS. These findings reveal novel acoustic features of vocal emotions that might be important in attracting infant attention to IDS.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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