The short answer is, it depends how old your baby is.
SCIENCE: A recent BYU study published in Developmental Psychology showed that kids as young as 4-months old can recognize different emotions when facial expression and voice matched. However, babies can't recognize emotion in voice alone until 5 months and not in facial expression alone until 7 months.
Toddler: Mommy is mad!
Development: The subtle but important take-home message of this study is your baby might not get the subtle facial clues of your feelings until they reach a critical developmental milestone. It is also another example that the simultaneous pairing of stimuli (in this case, voice and facial expressions) is a critical mechanism of infant development. So while babies can recognize /who/ we are within minutes of being born, it takes them a while to be able to understand when we frown when they spill their bottle or when we grin because they're so darn cute.
You can also read my other blog on Child Development to see how this BYU study supports Cuvid's Developmental Videos.
Now if I can just find a way to get Dr. Flom to use Cuvid videos in one of his studies... hmm....
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