Musical affect regulation in infancy

Trehub, Sandra E.; Ghazban, Niusha; Corbeil, Mariève

doi:10.1111/nyas.12622

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“…The combination that was most used among the mothers and most effective at reducing all levels of infant distress, was holding/rocking together with soothing vocalising behaviours (Jahromi et al, 2004). Singing with an infant is a social and often multimodal action, which includes rhythmically organised auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, kinaesthetic and vestibular modalities (Longhi, 2009;MacKinlay & Baker, 2005;Trehub et al, 2015). Infants prefer infant-directed singing and infant-directed speech to adult-directed speech (Fernald, 1989).…”

Section: Parental Singing As Social Affective Pain Alleviationmentioning

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Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Ullsten

Eriksson

Klässbo³

et al. 2018

Music & Science

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Infant-directed singing is a medium for parents and infants to communicate in a mutual relationship. Parental infantdirected singing is a multisensory, biopsychosocial communication that applies to ill and vulnerable hospitalised infants. The primary musical features of infant-directed singing are ideal for emotional coordination and sharing between parent and infant without the risk of over-stimulation. In this article, we suggest that parental infant-directed singing is regarded as a nonpharmacological emotion regulation intervention, which may modify the painful experience for both the infant and the parent before, during and after painful procedures in the neonatal intensive care context. Parents have the biopsychosocial resources to alleviate their infant's pain through infant-directed singing, if they are empowered to do so and coached in this process. A music therapist specialised in neonatal music therapy methods can mentor parents in how to use entrained and attuned live lullaby singing in connection to painful procedures. Pain and the vast amount of painful procedures early in infancy, combined with early parent-infant separation and lack of parental participation in the care of the infant during neonatal intensive care, place arduous strain on the new family's attachment process and on the infant's and parents' mental health, both from a short and long-term perspective. Therefore, we argue with biopsychosocial rationales, that live parental infant-directed singing should be promoted in neonatal pain care worldwide. Consequently, parents should be welcomed round the clock and invited as prescribed pain management for their infant.

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Section: Parental Singing As Social Affective Pain Alleviationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Singing, sharing, soothing – biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management

Ullsten

Eriksson

Klässbo³

et al. 2018

Music & Science

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“…Infants in the infant-directed singing condition lasted more than twice as long before displaying distress compared to infants in either of the speech conditions . In a related study, Trehub, Ghazban, and Corbeil (2015) reported that mothers soothed their distressed 10-month-old infants more quickly and reduced infant arousal when using singing versus speech. Musical intervention has also been successful in reducing bouts of inconsolable crying in premature hospitalized infants (Keith, Russell, & Weaver, 2009).…”

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Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

Cirelli¹,

Wan²,

Spinelli³

et al. 2017

Music Perception

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MOVING IN SYNCHRONY WITH OTHERS ENCOURAGESprosocial behavior. Adults who walk, sing, or tap together are later more likely to be cooperative, helpful, and rate each other as likeable. Our previous studies demonstrated that interpersonal synchrony encourages helpfulness even in 14-month-old infants. However, in those studies, infants always experienced interpersonal synchrony in a musical context. Here we investigated whether synchronous movement in a nonmusical context has similar effects on infant helpfulness. Fourteen-month-olds were bounced gently while the experimenter faced the infant and bounced with them either in-or out-of-synchrony. In contrast to our previous studies, instead of listening to music during this interpersonal movement phase while being bounced, infants listened to nonrhythmic nature sounds. We then tested infant prosociality directed toward the experimenter. Results showed that synchronous bouncing still encouraged more prosociality than asynchronous bouncing, despite the absence of music. However, helping was more delayed and fussiness rates were much higher than in our previous studies with music. Thus music may not be necessary for interpersonal synchrony to influence infant helpfulness, but the presence of music may act as a mood regulator or distractor to help keep infants happy and allow them to fully experience the effects of synchronous movement.

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“…Across cultures, music is used to soothe infants through lullabies . Biologically, music modulates β ‐endorphins in infants born preterm, cortisol levels in 6‐month‐old infants, and research has shown that maternal lullabies are more effective than maternal speech in lowering arousal in 10‐month‐old infants following a stressor . This paper therefore aims to examine further what is most credibly known about how music impacts neonates.…”

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“…9 Biologically, music modulates b-endorphins in infants born preterm, 10 cortisol levels in 6-month-old infants, 11 and research has shown that maternal lullabies are more effective than maternal speech in lowering arousal in 10-month-old infants following a stressor. 12 This paper therefore aims to examine further what is most credibly known about how music impacts neonates. Although several other authors have undertaken similar literature reviews on this topic, we examine the subject from a neuroscientific perspective to: (1) theorize what the biological mechanisms involved may be, (2) review a selection of relevant, methodologically rigorous studies, and (3) discuss how music might be leveraged specifically for better neurodevelopmental outcomes.…”

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