TY - JOUR T1 - TauG-Guidance Of Neonatal Vocalizing JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/143156 SP - 143156 AU - David N Lee AU - Mateo Obregon AU - Jonathan Delafield-Butt Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/27/143156.abstract N2 - 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. ER -