The development of evaluative responses to music: Infants prefer to listen to consonance over dissonance

被引:153
作者
Trainor, LJ [1 ]
Heinmiller, BM [1 ]
机构
[1] McMaster Univ, Dept Psychol, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
关键词
infant; auditory perception; music preference; consonance; dissonance;
D O I
10.1016/S0163-6383(98)90055-8
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
In Experiment 1, 6-month-old infants looked longer in order to listen to a set of consonant intervals than to a set of dissonant intervals. In Experiment 2, infants preferred to listen to the original version of a Mozart minuet than to a version altered to contain many dissonant intervals. Thus, although infants do not yet have the musical-system-specific knowledge of scale structure that is involved in adults' emotional reactions to music, infants are similar to adults in their evaluative reactions to consonance and dissonance.
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页码:77 / 88
页数:12
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