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- Title
Preference for consonance over dissonance by hearing newborns of deaf parents and of hearing parents.
- Authors
Masataka, Nobuo
- Abstract
Behavioral preferences for consonance over dissonance were tested in hearing infants of deaf parents and in hearing infants of hearing parents when they were 2 days old. Using a modified visual-fixation-based, auditory-preference procedure, I found that both 2-day-old infants of deaf parents and those of hearing parents looked longer at a visual stimulus when looking produced the original version of a Mozart minuet as opposed to a version altered to contain many dissonant intervals. The relative magnitude of such preference did not significantly differ whether their parents were deaf or hearing. Infants prefer consonance over dissonance, and the preference is present from birth and is not dependent on any specific prenatal or early postnatal experience.
- Subjects
INFANT psychology; COGNITIVE dissonance; COGNITIVE consistency; COGNITION in infants; INFANT development; AUDITORY perception; AUDITORY perception in infants; PERCEPTION in infants; DEAF parents; CHILDREN of deaf parents
- Publication
Developmental Science, 2006, Vol 9, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
1363-755X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00462.x