PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David N Lee
AU  - Mateo Obregon
AU  - Jonathan Delafield-Butt
TI  - TauG-Guidance Of Neonatal Vocalizing
AID  - 10.1101/143156
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 143156
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/27/143156.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/27/143156.full
AB  - A theory of action control (General Tau Theory) is applied to analyzing the vocalizations of human neonates. A central aspect of the theory, which is supported by experimental evidence across various actions and species, is that the trajectories of competent skilled actions follow a particular temporal pattern, which is described by the mathematical function, tauG. It was found that the acoustic waveform of vocalizations of healthy, full-term babies followed the tauG pattern with high precision. We conclude that healthy full-term neonates can be born with the ability to tauG-guide their vocalizations.