Human processing predispositions and musical universals.

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THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC: INNATENESS, UNIQUENESS, AND EVOLUTION (2005, background): “When infants are played both lullabies and adult songs under similar conditions, adults who watch them on videotape judge the infants to be happier when played the lullabies than when played adult songs (Trehub, 2000).”
The Cognition of Tonality – as We Know it Today (2004, background): “This area has recently emphasized the predispositions infants have for music and music-like patterns (Papousek & Papousek, 1981; Trehub, 2000).”
A Theory of Tonal Hierarchies in Music (2010, background): “…repertoire; they develop the discrimination of, for example, melodic contours, frequencies, simple harmonic ratios, phrasing, and, to some extent, pitch-scale patterns (for reviews tracing this first year, see Trehub and Trainor 1993; Trehub et al. 1997; Dowling 1999; Cohen 2000; Trehub 2000).”