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Direct linkMehr, Samuel A.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2018
Five-month-old infants selectively attend to novel people who sing melodies originally learned from a parent, but not melodies learned from a musical toy or from an unfamiliar singing adult, suggesting that music conveys social information to infant listeners. Here, we test this interpretation further in older infants with a more direct measure of…
Descriptors: Infants, Music, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Preferences
