Preference for infant-directed singing in 2-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents.
L. J. Trainor (1996) reported preferences for infant-directed versus infant-absent singing in English in 4-7-month-old hearing infants of English-speaking hearing parents. In this experiment, the author tested preferences for infant-directed singing versus adult-directed singing in 15 two-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents for a Japanese and an English play song. Using a modified visual-fixation-based auditory-preference procedure, the author found that infants looked longer at a visual stimulus when looking produced infant-directed singing as opposed to adult-directed singing. These results suggest that infants prefer infant-directed singing over adult-directed singing and that the preference is present from birth and is not dependent on any specific prenatal or postnatal experience.
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Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan. masataka@smtp.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment