Musical Predispositions in Infancy: an Update

By Sandra E. Trehub. 2003

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Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison (2004, background): “In both domains, the affective properties of the infant-directed register appear to be central; before the availability of other forms of communication, the prosodic contours in these two domains are a primary means of transmitting emotional information (for a recent review, see Trehub, 2003).”
Inventing songs, inventing worlds: the ‘genesis’ of creative thought and activity in young children’s lives (2006, background): “…work (during the first 12 months of life) is further supported through the use of ‘infant directed song’ (Trehub, 2001, 2003a) that features a distinctive repertoire of songs with simple musical structures performed ‘in an expressive and highly ritualised manner’ (Trehub, 2003a, p. 671).”
Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain (2013, unknown): “The popular notion that music evolved for courtship ( Miller, 2000 , 2001 ) stands on a surprisingly weak empirical footing compared to a less obvious but better documented function of music: mother-infant communication ( Trainor, 1996 ; Trehub, 2003a , 2003b ).”
Establishing an empirical profile of self-defined “tone deafness”: Perception, singing performance and self-assessment (2008, background): “Infancy research is uncovering a number of musical processing predispositions, with infants appearing to perceive music in fundamentally similar ways to adults (see Trehub, Schellenberg & Hill, 1997; Trehub 2003 for reviews).”
Music listening, coping, peer affiliation and depression in adolescence (2009, background): “…and depression in adolescence can be predicted on the basis of music’s intrinsic ties with human emotions (Collier, 2007; Juslin & Sloboda, 2001; Peretz & Zatorre, 2003) and its involvement in emotion regulation from early childhood (Trehub, 2003) and into adolescence (e.g., North et al., 2000).”
The evolutionary nature of musical meaning (2009, background): “The work of researchers such as Sandra Trehub (for an overview see Trehub, 2003a) has shown that caregiver-infant vocal interactions exhibit striking similarities across a wide range of cultures, that even very young infants are sensitive to significant features of musical structure, and that…”