Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I
- Conference 2002
Title, Category
Aim
Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.
Technology & Proc
edure
Main focus of interest
Conclusion
60P. Ruzza et al. (527
-529)
Musical quality of early infant sounds
Cat
. 6: Infant sounds
Cat. 7: Culture 61P. Thompson et al. (530
-532)
Perceiving prosody in speech
Cat
. 6: Phonetic sounds
Cat. 8: Music
ians
Early vocalizations in
2-month
old
Italian and Moroccan
infants are examined
To test whether musical training is associated with anhanced ability to per
ceive
prosody in speech
Cooing, gooing, babbling, vowel
-like, consonant
-like
sounds
CR: Ital
ian, Moroccan
Four happy
-sounding
utterances, and intonation melodies (
SNI)
, matching
utterances in pitch and temporal variation
CR: Neutral
Five 2
-month
-old infants,
three Moroccan, two Italian.
Statistical analysis of acoustic parameters
22 musically trained, 16 untrained listeners.
Task: To listen to
pairs of
utterances and melodies,
and
judge whether or not the intonation melody matched the prosody of the phrase
Protophones (precursors of speech)
. Differences
be
tween
the two ethnic
groups
Differences between music
ally trained an
d
untrained listeners
In both groups, speech utterances prevail over non
speech sounds
Musically trained participants are better than untrained participants at extracting prosodic information from speech