Infant Music Development and Music Experiences: A Literature Review

Arrasmith, Kathleen

doi:10.1177/8755123319889669

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“…This highlights the relevance of music production and learning for cultural evolutionary theory [81]. Numerous and converging studies demonstrate that humans learn the musical regularities of their own cultural background [18; 19; 20; 23] from a very early age [82; 83], throughout life [26; 27; 28], and in the absence of explicit instructions, much like they learn their mother tongue [84]. In this perspective, musical features could be selected through evolutionary processes to enhance music learning and thus favor common pleasurable experiences and social bonding [74; 85; 81].…”

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Neural basis of melodic learning explains cross-cultural regularities in musical scales

Pelofi

Rezaeizadeh

Farbood

et al. 2022

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Seeking exposure to unfamiliar experiences constitutes an essential aspect of the human condition, and the brain must adapt to the constantly changing environment by learning the evolving statistical patterns emerging from it. Cultures are shaped by norms and conventions and therefore novel exposure to an unfamiliar culture induces a type of learning that is often described as implicit: when exposed to a set of stimuli constrained by unspoken rules, cognitive systems must rapidly build a mental representation of the underlying grammar. Music offers a unique opportunity to investigate this implicit statistical learning, as sequences of tones forming melodies exhibit structural properties learned by listeners during short- and long-term exposure. Understanding which specific structural properties of music enhance learning in naturalistic learning conditions reveals hard-wired properties of cognitive systems while elucidating the prevalence of these features across cultural variations. Here we provide behavioral and neural evidence that the prevalence of non-uniform musical scales may be explained by their facilitating effects on melodic learning. In this study, melodies were generated using an artificial grammar with either a uniform (rare) or non-uniform (prevalent) scale. After a short exposure phase, listeners had to detect ungrammatical new melodies while their EEG responses were recorded. Listeners' performance on the task suggested that the extent of statistical learning during music listening depended on the musical scale context: non-uniform scales yielded better syntactic learning. This behavioral effect was mirrored by enhanced encoding of musical syntax in the context of non-uniform scales, which further suggests that their prevalence stems from fundamental properties of learning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Neural basis of melodic learning explains cross-cultural regularities in musical scales

Pelofi

Rezaeizadeh

Farbood

et al. 2022

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“…A literature review on the topic of mother-infant singing was recently presented by Arrasmith (2020). According to recent work by Alessandronia et al (2020), in addition to dyadic interactions (adult-baby), music in the first months of life, may also play a role in shaping early triadic interactions (adult-object-baby).…”

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Evolutionary origins of music. Classical and recent hypotheses

Kalinowski

Kozłowska

Malesza³

et al. 2021

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The aim of this paper is to review recent hypotheses on the evolutionary origins of music in Homo sapiens, taking into account the most influential traditional hypotheses. To date, theories derived from evolution have focused primarily on the importance that music carries in solving detailed adaptive problems. The three most influential theoretical concepts have described the evolution of human music in terms of 1) sexual selection, 2) the formation of social bonds, or treated it 3) as a byproduct. According to recent proposals, traditional hypotheses are flawed or insufficient in fully explaining the complexity of music in Homo sapiens. This paper will critically discuss three traditional hypotheses of music evolution (music as an effect of sexual selection, a mechanism of social bonding, and a byproduct), as well as and two recent concepts of music evolution - music as a credible signal and Music and Social Bonding (MSB) hypothesis.

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“…For instance, music has been implicated in contexts of emotional, social, cultural, and biological influence (Peretz, 2006 ; Koelsch, 2018 ; Savage, 2019 ; Savage et al, 2020 ). Developmental neuroscience has studied the processing and perception of music in the fetal and infant brain and its selective role in environmental enrichment and socioemotional development (Papatzikis and Papatziki, 2016 ; Chorna et al, 2019 ; Arrasmith, 2020 ; Papatzikis et al, 2021 ). Mental health research suggests the potential benefits of music in alleviating symptoms in a variety of neurological and affective disorders ranging from depression and schizophrenia to dementia (Van de Winckel et al, 2004 ; Talwar et al, 2006 ; Lin et al, 2011 ; Gustavson et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%