Rhythm perception in early infancy

Demany, Laurent; McKenzie, B. E.; Vurpillot, Éliane

doi:10.1038/266718a0

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“…One such mechanism relies on how close in temporal proximity the tones are. Sensitivity to figural structure is immediate and easy and is present in 3-month-old infants (Demany et al, 1977). Another mechanism involves timing that is dependent on the instantiation of an internal clock, or a sense of metric structure.…”

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Detection of metric structure in auditory figural patterns

Hébert

Cuddy

2002

Perception & Psychophysics

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This series of experiments dealt with discrimination between two temporal patterns differing only by the insertion of an additional silent gap. In Experiment 1, patterns varied in metric and figural structure. Metric structure is described as the sense of temporal regularity that may occur between subjectively accented tones. Figural structure is described as the grouping of temporally adjacent tones separated by silences. Standard patterns were either strongly or weakly metric; comparison patterns differed from the standards by the insertion of a silence that disrupted either the metric structure alone or both the metric and the figural structures. Experiment 1 provided support for the roles of both metric and figural structures and provided support for the clock-induction model of Povel and Essens (1985) as an account of metric processing. In Experiments 2-4, discrimination of patterns with differing metric structures but identical figural structures was examined more closely. Rate of presentation of the patterns was varied. Multiple regression indicated that, independent of rate variations, discrimination improved as the absolute (not relative) duration of the silent gap increased. We argue that an additional timing mechanism, independent of pattern structure, is operative in temporal pattern discrimination. All the results were replicated across levels of music training of the listeners.

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“…Discrimination is generally very high for both infant listeners (Demany, McKenzie, & Vurpillot, 1977;Thorpe & Trehub, 1989) and adult listeners (Handel, 1998;Ross & Houtsma, 1994, Experiment 1). The perception of auditory figures may represent an application of general Gestalt grouping principles of similarity and proximity (Koffka, 1935;Köhler, 1947).…”

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Detection of metric structure in auditory figural patterns

Hébert

Cuddy

2002

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…Whereas the perception of meter is a learned top-down process (Drake et al 2000;Jones, 1976;Large & Jones, 1999), grouping is a bottom-up process (Handel, 1998): sensitivity to rhythmic grouping is immediate (Hébert & Cuddy, 2002) and it is seen in infants as young as 3 months old (Demany et al 1977).…”

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Perceiving the initial note: Quantitative models of how listeners parse cyclical auditory patterns

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Kubovy

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Young infants are sensitive to rhythm and prosody, both of which are based, to some extent, on duration and intensity variations. With musical stimuli, infants are able to discriminate by 2 months ofage (Demany, McKenzie, & Vurpillot, 1977) and to categorize by 7 months (Trehub & Thorpe, 1989) simple rhythmic patterns. With speech, infants can discriminate utterances differing only in their rhythm or stress patterns (Jusczyk & Thompson, 1978;Spring & Dale, 1977) and can perceive stress beats as adults do (Fowler, Smith, & Tassinary, 1985) within the first few months oflife.…”

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Infants’ and adults’ use of duration and intensity cues in the segmentation of tone patterns

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Adams

2000

Perception & Psychophysics

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Adults and 8-month-olds were presented with sequences in which every third complex tone was either longer or more intense. Segmentation was measured by comparing the detection of silent gaps inserted into three possible locations in each pattern: Silent gaps inserted at perceived segmentation boundaries are harder to detect than gaps within perceived phrases or groups. A go/no-go conditioned head-tum (hand-raising for adults) procedure was used. In Experiment 1, detection was worse for the gaps following the longer complex tones than for the gaps at the other locations, suggesting that the longer tones marked the ends of perceived groups for both infants and adults. Experiment 2 showed that an increase in intensity did not result in any systematic grouping at either age.The perception ofspeech and music involves analyzing the structure ofa pattern or stream of sounds that unfolds in time. One of the basic steps in this process is the segmentation of the stream into meaningful units or groups, such as notes, words, and phrases. For adults, it is likely that the segmentation of both music and language involves the use ofboth structural and acoustic cues. Structural cues in language include grammatical rules and phonotactic constraints. For example, some phonemes or groups of phonemes are more likely to begin words, whereas others are more likely to end words. Structural cues in music include the functional relations between the different notes of the scale. For example, musical compositions most often end on the tonic, or first note, of the scale. The acoustic cues to phrase endings in both

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Rhythm perception in early infancy

Cited by 190 publications

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Detection of metric structure in auditory figural patterns

Detection of metric structure in auditory figural patterns

Perceiving the initial note: Quantitative models of how listeners parse cyclical auditory patterns

Infants’ and adults’ use of duration and intensity cues in the segmentation of tone patterns

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