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Peer reviewedTrehub, Sandra E.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Two experiments involving a total of 177 infants 8 to 11 months of age found that subjects used a global processing strategy like adults' in discriminating transformations of a six-tone melody. Subjects needed melodic contour and frequency range to judge new sequences, but, in easy tasks, they also used absolute frequency. (CB)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Infants
Peer reviewedChang, Hsing-Wu; Trehub, Sandra E. – Child Development, 1977
Assessed the ability of 5-month-old infants to discriminate between auditory tone patterns differing in temporal arrangement but utilizing the same component tones. Heart rate change provided the measure of pattern discrimination. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Arousal Patterns, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
Peer reviewedGoodnow, Jacqueline J. – Child Development, 1971
An investigation to account for age changes in the accuracy with which children match auditory to visual series. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Elementary School Students
