Tuning in to musical rhythms: infants learn more readily than adults.

By Erin E. Hannon, Sandra E. Trehub. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy (2009, background): “For example, infants who grow up in bilingual homes continue to respond to visible articulation differences in a non-native language at an age when monolingual infants no longer respond to them (6).”
The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population (2014, background): “Young infants, before they have had the opportunity to receive formalised training, demonstrate sophisticated musical abilities, including the ability to distinguish intervals, recognise folk songs [47], and detect metrical deviations in music from their own musical culture as well as from a nonnati”
Infants Perception of Rhythmic Patterns (2006, background): “…numerous examples of Indian and African music, Gregorian chant, and North American jazz without apparent metric structure, or with structures that are more complex than those of traditional Western music (Blacking, 1973; Hannon & Trehub, 2005a; Lerdahl & Jackendoff, 1983; Magill & Pressing, 1997).”
Synchronization and Continuation Tapping to Complex Meters (2006, background): “…possibility is supported by the finding that young infants have little difficulty perceiving timing disruptions of musical patterns in both simple and complex meters, while North-American 1-year-olds and adults only perform accurately in the context of simple meters (Hannon & Trehub, 2005a, 2005b).”
The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants: underlying mechanisms and its developmental persistence. (2008, background): “Finally, studies of infant response to nonnative musical rhythms have found that 6-month-old infants can discriminate complex non-Western musical rhythms, that 12-month-old infants do not (Hannon and Trehub, 2005a), and that this decline is a function of specific experience with Western musical rhyt”
Social learning across the life cycle: cultural knowledge acquisition for honey collection among the Jenu Kuruba, India ☆ (2012, background): “Some researchers have documented learning periods after which individuals have greater difficulty acquiring skills (Hannon & Trehub, 2007; Oyama, 1976; Omaghari & Berkes, 1997).”
Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution (2006, background): “This is an area where more developmental work is warranted, examining how innate predispositions and experience interact to produce BPS (cf. Hannon & Trehub, 2005; Phillips-Silver & Trainor, 2005; Repp, 2005).”
A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination (2007, background): “Whereas North American adults can identify violations inmusic containing simple, but not complex, metrical structure, Bulgarian adults can identify violations in music containing complex structure (Hannon & Trehub, 2005a).”
Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input (2021, background): “Thus, even if one might be tempted to say that phonetic categories are implicitly present in some sense in a representation—for example in a continuous representation exhibiting sharp increases in discriminability across phonetic category boundaries (49)—unless a plausible mechanism by which downstr”
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy & What It Means for the Study of Infancy (2011, background): “…but that older infants and adults no longer do (Best, McRoberts, & Sithole, 1988; Rivera-Gaxiola, Silva-Pereyra, & Kuhl, 2005; Werker & Tees, 1984) and that younger infants respond to native and non-native musical meter but that older infants respond only to native meter (Hannon & Trehub, 2005a).”
The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. (2009, unknown): “Similar to the adults of Bulgarian or Macedonian origin, 6-month-old, but not 12-month-old, North American infants detect simple and complex metrical structure but, unlike the adults, 12-month-olds become capable of discriminating them after a 2-week exposure to the complex meters [38, 39 ].”