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Masataka, Nobuo – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Used a modified visual-fixation-based auditory-preference procedure to test preferences for infant-directed singing versus adult-directed singing in 15 two-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents. Subjects heard a Japanese and an English play song. Found that infants prefer infant-directed singing over adult-directed singing and that the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Infant Behavior
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Saffran, Jenny R.; Griepentrog, Gregory J. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Two experiments examined 8-month-olds' use of absolute and relative pitch cues in a tone-sequence statistical learning task. Results suggest that, given unsegmented stimuli that do not conform to rules of musical composition, infants are more likely to track patterns of absolute pitches than of relative pitches. A third experiment found that adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis
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Field, Tiffany M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Heart Rate
Chen, Shing-Jen, Ed.; Furutsuka, Takashi, Ed.; Shirotani, Yukari, Ed. – 2000
This annual report presents several articles related to the work of the Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The articles are: (1) "Maternal Speech and Behavior during Mother-Infant Play: Comparison between the United States and Japan" (Sueko Toda, Marc H. Bornstein, and Hiroshi Azuma); (2)…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Auditory Perception, Bilingualism, Caregiver Speech