title: Exploration or imitation? The effect of music on 4-week-old infants' tongue protrusions.
abstract: In a newborn imitation paradigm, an auditory stimulus--music--replaced the standard adult behavioral model. Alternating intervals of music and silence affected 4-week-old infants' rates of tongue protruding--evidence that tongue protruding is a general response to interesting distal stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA. jones1@indiana.edu
authors.forename: Susan S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D018730:Infant Behavior; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014059:Tongue / Q000502:physiology*