The Origins of Differential Hemispheric Strategies for Information Processing in the Relationships Between Voice and Face Perception

Abstract

(from the chapter) (propose) that prenatal exposure to maternal speech in concert with different rates of development of the two hemispheres results in a left hemisphere specialization for speech by the time of birth / this specialization together with the tendency for adults to speak to infants as they approach, results in a right hemisphere specialization for faces / (suggest) that the characteristic right hemisphere mode of holistic processing and left hemisphere mode of analytic processing derive from early face, voice processing /// consider the way in which voice recognition influences the processing of facial information which in turn contributes to the development of multiple modes of information processing in the adult / (this position) is based upon the view that cognitive styles are the outcome of timing relationships between components from many domains developing at different rates / components which I will consider are ecological, neurological, sensory and social / (contend) that there are developmentally unique aspects to each of these components which are fundamental to the shaping of cognition.