| Infants prefer the musical meter of their own culture: a cross-cultural comparison. | |
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PMID: 20053025 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Infants prefer native structures such as familiar faces and languages. Music is a universal human activity containing structures that vary cross-culturally. For example, Western music has temporally regular metric structures, whereas music of the Balkans (e.g., Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey) can have both regular and irregular structures. We presented 4- to 8-month-old American and Turkish infants with contrasting melodies to determine whether cultural background would influence their preferences for musical meter. In Experiment 1, American infants preferred Western over Balkan meter, whereas Turkish infants, who were familiar with both Western and Balkan meters, exhibited no preference. Experiments 2 and 3 presented infants with either a Western or Balkan meter paired with an arbitrary rhythm with complex ratios not common to any musical culture. Both Turkish and American infants preferred Western and Balkan meter to an arbitrary meter. Infants' musical preferences appear to be driven by culture-specific experience and a culture-general preference for simplicity. |
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Authors:
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Gaye Soley; Erin E Hannon |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Developmental psychology Volume: 46 ISSN: 1939-0599 ISO Abbreviation: Dev Psychol Publication Date: 2010 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-01-07 Completed Date: 2010-03-09 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0260564 Medline TA: Dev Psychol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 286-92 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright 2009 APA, all rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA. |
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Acoustic Stimulation
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methods Age Factors Americas Child Development / physiology* Cross-Cultural Comparison* Female Humans Infant Laboratory Techniques and Procedures Male Music* Pitch Discrimination* Reaction Time / physiology Recognition (Psychology) / physiology* Time Factors Turkey |
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