Between 3 and 5 Months, Babies Can

question 120

Multiple Choice

Between 3 and 5 months, babies can

• A) discriminate positive from negative emotion in voices.
• B) match faces with voices on the basis of lip-voice synchrony.
• C) discriminate positive from negative emotion in faces.
• D) remember the unique face-voice pairings of unfamiliar adults.

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