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Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Trehub, Sandra E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Two experiments examined the effects of a culture-general factor, pattern redundancy, on the discrimination of five-tone melodies that differed in their adherence to Western tonal conventions, among 9-month olds, 5-year olds, and adults. Increasing exposure seemed to attenuate the effects of the pattern redundancy while amplifying the influence of…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Cultural Context