PSY387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Railways Act 1921, Crossmodal, Semitone
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Perception of melodic and rhythmic patterns are similar to adults. Pre-attentive to: rhythmic changes, beat of music, altered pitch patterns. Infants can recognize same melody at different pitch levels and tempos. Remember more details from voice melodies than instrumental melodies. Detecting pitch and rhythmic changes in foreign music. However, by 12 months, become more atuned to western music: adult-like performance. Pitch range and tempo speech closer resemble to singing. Western mothers hold infants less, lively speech and singing. Non-western mothers hold infants more, sooth speech and singing. Audio-only: prefer id singing to non-id singing. Audio-only: no preference for id speech vs. singing. Audio-visual: prefer id singing to id speech. Visual-only: prefer id singing to id speech. Infants listened to id singing twice as long than id speech before fussing and crying. Infants content, infants distressed, recovered more rapidly when mothers resumed with id singing than speech. Infants move rhythmically to rhythmic music but not to speechs.