The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

Schellenberg and Trehub 1994a,1996a,b).Thus,for example,infants show better retention of melodic (sequential) intervals of perfe ...

inherent bias for consonant intervals may well be linked to the perva- siveness of octaves (2:1 ratio),perfect fifths (3:2 ratio ...

to encode and retain than equal-step scales,such advantages might be apparent with infant listeners. We presented infants and ad ...

advantage over the novel,unequal-interval scale,which rules out expo- sure as a factor contributing to performance differences.N ...

Lateral Asymmetries in Processing Asymmetries in brain structure and function are evident from the earli- est days of life (e.g. ...

As a result,distinctions between processing biases and familiarity effects may be obscured. Speech and Sign for Infants Do music ...

Music for Infants Caregivers in every culture not only speak to their infant charges,they sing to them (Trehub and Schellenberg ...

fathers,are more expressive with their infant sons than with their infant daughters (Trehub,Hill,and Kamenetsky 1997b),which is ...

enjoyment (Trehub and Kamenetsky,in preparation).Such judgments revealed that infants “enjoy”lullabies more than adult songs or ...

Come,wolf,bite this baby He won’t sleep (Colombo 1983:60) Dissanayake (1992) proposed a universal,biologically based disposi- ti ...

holes were reportedly chipped from the femur of a bear cub (Kunej and Turk,this volume).According to Fink (1997),the distance be ...

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Schellenberg,E.G.and Trehub,S.E.(1994b).Frequency ratios and the perception of tone patterns.Psychonomic Bulletin and Review1:19 ...

Trehub,S.E.,Hill,D.S.,and Kamenetsky,S.B.(1997a).Infants’ perception of melodies with “good”or “bad”rhythms.Presented at the bie ...

Michel Imberty Abstract In this chapter I examine the implications of a certain number of theories in the domains of musical ana ...

Since Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s work,many psychologists have tried experimentally to validate certain “rules”put forward in the G ...

Universality and Innateness One of the strongest hypotheses,and thus one of the most constraining for generative theories whethe ...