Infants' responsiveness to maternal speech and singing

By T. Nakata, Sandra E. Trehub. 2004

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Pharmacy

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Paul C. Quinn
2. O. Pascalis
3. Tonya R. Bergeson
4. E. G. Schellenberg
5. D. Fancourt
6. R. Perkins
7. Isabelle Peretz
8. Mariève Corbeil

In Education

1. Swathi Swaminathan
2. E. G. Schellenberg
3. Laurel J. Trainor
4. D. Fancourt
5. R. Perkins
6. Paul C. Quinn
7. Sandra E. Trehub
8. Safia Khalil

In Pharmacy

1. E. G. Schellenberg
2. D. Fancourt
3. R. Perkins
4. Isabelle Peretz
5. Mariève Corbeil
6. Sandra E. Trehub

Citations in the corpus

• Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants (2012, positive): “The current study used videos of females who spoke and sang to the infants due to infants’ preferences for infant-directed speech and singing (Cooper & Aslin, 1990; Nakata & Trehub, 2004).”
• Infant-Directed Speech Is Modulated by Infant Feedback (2008, background): “Perceptual studies have shown that infants are sensitive to the prosodic modifications of ID speech and prefer to listen to ID over AD speech and song (e.g., Cooper & Aslin, 1990; Fernald, 1985; Nakata & Trehub, 2004; Pegg, Werker, & McLeod, 1992; Trainor, 1996).”
• The effects of mother–infant singing on emotional closeness, affect, anxiety, and stress hormones (2018, background): “It also ties in with literature that has looked at mother–infant bonding in response to singing from the perspective of infant responses (Nakata & Trehub, 2004; Shenfield et al., 2003).”
• Current Emotion Research in Music Psychology (2015, background): “For example, singing is more effective than speech at holding an infant’s attention (Nakata & Trehub, 2004), and caregivers across cultures intuitively capitalize on this phenomenon by speaking to infants in a manner that is very music-like, with exaggerated pitch contours, high overall pitch, a…”
• Infants Perception of Rhythmic Patterns (2006, background): “…of prelinguistic infants is replete with rhythmic sound events, including speech and songs (Bergeson & Trehub, 2002; Fernald, 1991; Trehub & Trainor, 1998), which are effective in capturing and maintaining infant attention (Fernald, 1985; Masataka, 1999; Nakata & Trehub, 2004; Trainor, 1996).”
• Perception of Multisensory Gender Coherence in 6- and 9-month-old Infants (2015, neutral): “First, songs are more prosodically varied and infants are known to be highly sensitive to prosody both in the auditory (Fernald, 1985) and visual domains (Kim & Johnson, 2014; Nakata & Trehub, 2004).”
• Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress (2016, background): “Attention capture is greater, however, to audiovisual renditions of maternal singing than to maternal speech (Nakata & Trehub, 2004), perhaps because mothers smile more when they sing than when they speak to infants (Trehub et al., 2015).”