ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2023
Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.
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- Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Vocal performance evaluation of the intelligent note recognition method based on deep learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Universal interpretations of vocal music.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Article
- Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility.Infant and child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Music commonly appears in behavioral contexts in which it can be seen as playing a functional role, as when a parent sings a lullaby with the goal of soothing a baby. Humans readily make inferences, based on the sounds they hear, regarding the behavioral contexts associated with music. These inferences tend to be accurate, even if the songs are in foreign languages or unfamiliar musical idioms; upon hearing a Blackfoot lullaby, a Korean listener with no experience of Blackfoot music, language, or broader culture is far more likely to judge the music's function as "used to soothe a baby" than "used for dancing". Are such inferences shaped by musical exposure or does the human mind naturally detect links between musical form and function of these kinds? Children's developing experience of music provides a clear test of this question. We studied musical inferences in a large sample of children recruited online (
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