Developmental considerations in children's song exposure: A commentary on Verosky (2022)

If so, this could potentially explain the protracted developmental trajectory for musical enculturation (Hannon & Trainor, 2007): although even young infants can extract statistical information from stimuli, such as frequencies and transitional probabilities (see Saffian & Kirkliam, 2018 for...

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Published in:Empirical musicology review 2022-04, Vol.17 (2), p.165-168
Main Author: Kragness, Haley E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Babies
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cultural heritage
Harmony (Music)
Listening
Music education
Preschool education
Science
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Summary:If so, this could potentially explain the protracted developmental trajectory for musical enculturation (Hannon & Trainor, 2007): although even young infants can extract statistical information from stimuli, such as frequencies and transitional probabilities (see Saffian & Kirkliam, 2018 for a review), sensitivity to key relationships appears to be present only around the preschool years and sensitivity to harmonic relationships is apparent even later (Corrigall & Trainor, 2009, 2010, Kragness & Trainor, 2018; Politimou et al., 2021; Trainor & Trehub, 1994). While infants and children are undoubtedly surrounded by a wide diversity of musical styles and idioms, it is likely that particular attention is paid to songs that are geared towards their age group, such as those identified in the novel corpus. [...]many of the identified songs encomage additional engagement, such as through gestmes (for example, hand movements to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"). Active music classes in infancy enhance musical, communicative and social development: Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months.
ISSN:1559-5749
DOI:10.18061/emr.vl7i2.9551