Infants' Preferential Attention to Sung and Spoken Stimuli

Autor/inn/en	Costa-Giomi, Eugenia; Ilari, Beatriz
Titel	Infants' Preferential Attention to Sung and Spoken Stimuli
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Music Education, 62 (2014) 2, S.188-194 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4294
DOI	10.1177/0022429414530564
Schlagwörter	Infants; Preferences; Attention; Singing; Verbal Communication; Auditory Stimuli; Comparative Analysis; Music; Bias; French; Visual Stimuli; Observation; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Aufmerksamkeit; Gesang; Auditive Stimulation; Musik; Französisch; Beobachtung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Caregivers and early childhood teachers all over the world use singing and speech to elicit and maintain infants' attention. Research comparing infants' preferential attention to music and speech is inconclusive regarding their responses to these two types of auditory stimuli, with one study showing a music bias and another one indicating no differential attention. The purpose of this investigation was to study 11-month-old infants' preferential attention to spoken and sung renditions of an unfamiliar folk song in a foreign language (n = 24). The results of an infant-controlled preference procedure showed no significant differences in attention to the two types of stimuli. The findings challenge infants' well-documented bias for speech over nonspeech sounds and provide evidence that music, even when performed by an untrained singer, can be as effective as speech in eliciting infants' attention. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10