Can adults identify pain in babies’ cries? CellPressNews Univ_St_Etienne baby children cry pain
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D.Aug 11 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. Infants generally cry with more variable pitch and duration than adults. Longer, harsher, rougher, and louder cries mean they are experiencing pain or mild discomfort. Hence, a baby’s cry with universal acoustic properties is innately decoded by caregivers.
Psychoacoustic experiments were performed with adult participants with varied experience with babies. The participants were categorized as those with no experience, moderate non-professional experience in the case of non-parents who did occasional babysitting or looked after siblings, parents with children who are at least five years of age, parents with babies less than two years of age, and non-parents with immense professional caregiving experience.
After the end of the training, participants were subjected to a test phase where they listened to new cry sequences, i.e., two discomfort and two pain cries, from their familiar baby and an unknown baby. Each participant was asked to classify these cries as discomfort or pain. Interestingly, it was observed that the ability of the participants to identify the cries for pain or discomfort correctly depended on their prior and current experience with babies.
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