Maternal Singing Modulates Infant Arousal

Shenfield, Tali; Trehub, Sandra E.; Nakata, Takayuki

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“…Studies of mothers singing select, live, infantdirected lullabies to newborns indicate stabilizing effects. 13 Although there is good evidence that the mother' s voice and her singing of lullabies have positive outcomes, some studies have implemented recordings of Mozart' s music, 14,15 and 1 study hypothesized a "Mozart effect" as an outcome. 11 Several studies have implemented therapist-selected music 15,16 and other applications including children' s singing, 18 male or female singing, 19 and the use of specific music genres common to the region of study 1,20 with varying results.…”

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The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

Loewy¹,

Stewart²,

Dassler³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Recorded music, parent voices, and sung lullabies have been shown to increase oxygen saturation, nonnutritive sucking, and weight gain in premature infants.WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS: Parent-preferred melodies and entrained live rhythm and breath sounds can enhance quiet alert and sleep states, suck response, and oxygen saturation in premature infants and significantly reduce fear and anxiety perception in parents. abstract OBJECTIVES: Recorded music risks overstimulation in NICUs. The live elements of music such as rhythm, breath, and parent-preferred lullabies may affect physiologic function (eg, heart and respiratory rates, O 2 saturation levels, and activity levels) and developmental function (eg, sleep, feeding behavior, and weight gain) in premature infants. METHODS:A randomized clinical multisite trial of 272 premature infants aged $32 weeks with respiratory distress syndrome, clinical sepsis, and/or SGA (small for gestational age) served as their own controls in 11 NICUs. Infants received 3 interventions per week within a 2-week period, when data of physiologic and developmental domains were collected before, during, and after the interventions or no interventions and daily during a 2-week period.RESULTS: Three live music interventions showed changes in heart rate interactive with time. Lower heart rates occurred during the lullaby (P , .001) and rhythm intervention (P = .04). Sucking behavior showed differences with rhythm sound interventions (P = .03). Entrained breath sounds rendered lower heart rates after the intervention (P = .04) and differences in sleep patterns (P , .001). Caloric intake (P = .01) and sucking behavior (P = .02) were higher with parent-preferred lullabies. Music decreased parental stress perception (P , .001). CONCLUSIONS:The informed, intentional therapeutic use of live sound and parent-preferred lullabies applied by a certified music therapist can influence cardiac and respiratory function. Entrained with a premature infant' s observed vital signs, sound and lullaby may improve feeding behaviors and sucking patterns and may increase prolonged periods of quiet-alert states. Parent-preferred lullabies, sung live, can enhance bonding, thus decreasing the stress parents associate with premature infant care.

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The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

Loewy¹,

Stewart²,

Dassler³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

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347

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“…the composer / the experimenter) rather than intrinsically produced by the signal receiver (i.e. the participants), in a similar vein to what is found, for example, in mother-infant interaction (Shenfield, Trehub & Nakata, 2003). This distinction between extrinsic (other-generated) and intrinsic (self-generated) influences on emotion regulation is particularly relevant for an understanding of how musical communication can mediate the process in which one person (e.g.…”

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“…How may the different outcomes in Experiments 2 (no affect-matching effect) and 3 (affectmatching effect) be interpreted?,We propose that the absence of tempo amongst the Shenfield et al, 2003;Trehub & Trainor, 1998) -an interactive pattern associated with positive outcomes in overall cognitive performance and emotional development (Bergman, Sarkar, Glover, & O'Connor, 2010;Mikulincer, Shaver, & Pereg, 2003).…”

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Affect-matching music improves cognitive performance in adults and young children for both positive and negative emotions

Franco

Swaine

Israni

et al. 2014

Psychology of Music

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Three experiments assessed the hypothesis that cognitive benefits associated with exposure to music only occur when the perceived emotion expression of the music and the participant's affective state match. Experiment 1 revealed an affect-matching pattern modulated by gender when assessing high-arousal states of opposite valence (happy/angry) in an adult sample (n=94) in which mood classification was based on self-report, and affective valence in music was differentiated by mode and other expressive cues whilst keeping tempo constant (139 BPM). The affect-matching hypothesis was then tested in two experiments with children using a moodinduction procedure: Experiment 2 tested happy/angry emotions with, respectively, 3-5-(n=40) and 6-9-year-old (n=40) children, and Experiment 3 compared happy/sad emotions (i.e., states differing both for valence and arousal profiles) with 3-5-year-old children (n=40), using music pieces differentiated also by fast vs. slow tempo. While young children failed to discriminate systematically between fast tempo music conveying different emotions, they did display cognitive benefits from exposure to affect-matching music when both valence (e.g., mode) and arousal level (e.g., tempo) differentiated the musical excerpts, with no gender effects. Keywords:Arousal, Central executive, Child development, Mozart Effect 3In music psychology, the beneficial effects of music on psychosocial functioning, and the role played by emotion and mood in producing those effects, are currently important topics of research (MacDonald, Kreutz, & Mitchell, 2012). One area of experimental research that has received particular attention is the study of the 'Mozart effect', a term that refers to findings of temporary improvements in cognitive performance after listening to music (for a review, see Schellenberg, 2012). Doubts about the theoretical underpinnings of the original study that spawned research on the 'Mozart effect' (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1993) led Schellenberg and collaborators to formulate an alternative theory called the 'arousal and mood hypothesis', which proposed that temporary improvements in cognitive performance were not a direct product of listening to music, but were rather a product of arousal and positive affect induced by listening to music. According to this hypothesis, the 'Mozart effect' is neither Mozart-specific nor music-specific: any piece of music, or any nonmusical stimulus, that induces arousal and positive affect can be used to produce temporary improvements in cognitive performance. This proposal is consistent with a wide range of studies finding that positive affect enhances performance on cognitive tasks (e.g. see Isen, 2008). A series of studies conducted by Schellenberg and collaborators supported the arousal and mood hypothesis (Husain, Thompson, & Schellenberg, 2002;Schellenberg, Nakata, Hunter, & Tamoto, 2007;Thompson, Schellenberg, & Husain, 2001; for a review, see Schellenberg, 2012).A key assumption made by Schellenberg and others is that happy-sounding music ...

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“…Singing to infants is a common musical activity for parents (Ilari, 2005), which modulates infant states of arousal and attention (Papousek, 1996) such as when entertaining and arousing a happy baby or soothing and lulling a sleepy baby. Testing cortisol levels in infants confirms that playful songs arouse babies while lullabies quiet them (Shenfield, Trehub, & Nakata, 2003). Others have established connections between parent-infant attachment, infant self-regulation, and infant-directed vocalizations and singing (Creighton, 2011;Dissanayake, 2000;Longhi, 2009;Mackenzie & Hamlett, 2005;Nakata & Trehub, 2004;O'Gorman, 2007;Papousek, 1996;Trainor, 1996).…”

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Teen Mother and Child Experiences in a Parent-Child Music Program

Emmerson¹,

Nicol²,

McIntyre³

2016

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In this paper, we outline the rationale and growing research base for parent-child music programs as a means to strengthen caregiver-child bonding, with particular interest in positively impacting the lives of adolescent mothers and their infants. Secondary schools that offer daycare and parenting classes are ideal sites for delivering parent-child music programs, and music educators are well situated to become involved in such initiatives.

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Maternal Singing Modulates Infant Arousal

Cited by 184 publications

References 47 publications

The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

The Effects of Music Therapy on Vital Signs, Feeding, and Sleep in Premature Infants

Affect-matching music improves cognitive performance in adults and young children for both positive and negative emotions

Teen Mother and Child Experiences in a Parent-Child Music Program

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