Tempo discrimination in infants

An habituation/dishabituation paradigm demonstrates that 2- and 4-month-old infants are able to discriminate auditory sequences that vary slightly in tempo. Discriminations were only observed for intermediate tempi (600 ms but not 100, 300, 1500 ms IOI), suggesting that infants have the same optimal...

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Published inInfant behavior & development Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 573 - 577
Main Authors Baruch, Clarisse, Drake, Carolyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Elsevier Inc 1997
Elsevier
Subjects
auditory perception
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Developmental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
habituation
infant tempo discrimination
Newborn. Infant
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
habituation
infant tempo discrimination
auditory perception
Human
Hearing
Habituation dishabituation paradigm
Infant
Perception
Cognition
Experimental study
Stimulus discrimination
Perceptual development
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Summary:An habituation/dishabituation paradigm demonstrates that 2- and 4-month-old infants are able to discriminate auditory sequences that vary slightly in tempo. Discriminations were only observed for intermediate tempi (600 ms but not 100, 300, 1500 ms IOI), suggesting that infants have the same optimal tempo range as adults.
ISSN:0163-6383
1879-0453
DOI:10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90049-7