PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pitch Contour, Phrase, Music Perception
Document Summary
Appraise claims about the effects of music on a human fetus. Contrast active and passive forms of learning and discuss their role in musical development. Design studies for evaluating the sensitivity of preverbal infants to various attributes of music. Differentiate musical attributes for which infants show early sensitivity from musical attributes for which sensitivity emerges later in development. Identify and discuss two ways in which early sensitivity to consonance and dissonance is manifested. Describe the development of sensitivity to harmony and key. Human infants begin life with a number of important skills including frequency coding mechanisms and multisensory connections that facilitate arrange of musical behaviors. Infants have a remarkable ability to discriminate pitches and rhythms, which is one of the most basic prerequisites for music appreciation. Through regular and repeated exposure to music, brain structures and representations eventually develop, shaping perceptions and experiences of music.
