Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress

Corbeil, Mariève; Trehub, Sandra E.; Peretz, Isabelle

doi:10.1111/infa.12114

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“…Those results obtained in a face-to-face playing context confirm previous studies showing ID singing to be more engaging [12] and calming [35] than ID talking for infants and support the idea that ID talking promotes more interactive behaviors in infants.…”

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Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Communicative Value of Infant-Directed Talking and Singing

Arias

Peña²

2016

Psychopathology

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Background: Across culture, healthy infants show a high interest in infant-directed (ID) talking and singing. Despite ID talking and ID singing being very similar in physical properties, infants differentially respond to each of them. The mechanisms underpinning these different responses are still under discussion. Methods: This study explored the behavioral (n = 26) and brain (n = 14) responses from 6- to 8-month-old infants to ID talking and ID singing during a face-to-face mother-infant interaction with their own mother. Behavioral response was analyzed from offline video coding, and brain response was estimated from the analysis of electrophysiological recordings. Results: We found that during ID talking, infants displayed a significantly higher number of visual contacts, vocalizations, and body movements than during ID singing. Moreover, only during ID talking were the number of visual contacts and vocalizations positively correlated with the number of questions and pauses in the mother's speech. Conclusions: Our results suggest that ID talking provides infants with specific cues that allow them not only to react to mother stimulation, but also to act toward them, displaying a rudimentary version of turn-taking behavior. Brain activity partially supported that interpretation. The relevance of our results for bonding is discussed.

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Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Communicative Value of Infant-Directed Talking and Singing

Arias

Peña²

2016

Psychopathology

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“…Although music, with its predictable beat, is an ideal stimulus to synchronize movements between people, it is possible that synchronous movement without music might have led to similar effects. Music does, however, have emotion regulation effects on infants (Corbeil, Trehub, & Peretz, ) and might still contribute positively to the infants' experience during the interpersonal movement phase. It is also not clear how the mechanisms driving prosociality following experimentally manipulated interpersonal synchrony are related to mechanisms at play during coordinated, responsive, and sensitive mother–infant interactions (mother–infant synchrony), known to foster positive social outcomes (see Reyna & Pickler, for a review).…”

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Social Effects of Movement Synchrony: Increased Infant Helpfulness only Transfers to Affiliates of Synchronously Moving Partners

Cirelli

Wan

Trainor

2016

Infancy

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Interpersonal synchrony increases cooperation among adults, children, and infants. We tested whether increased infant helpfulness transfers to individuals uninvolved in the movement, but shown to be affiliates of a synchronously moving partner. Initially, 14‐month‐old infants (N = 48) watched a live skit by Experimenters 1 and 2 that either demonstrated affiliation or individuality. Infants in both groups were then randomly assigned to be bounced to music either synchronously or asynchronously with Experimenter 1. Infant instrumental helpfulness toward Experimenter 2 was then measured. If the two experimenters were affiliates, infants from the synchronous movement condition were significantly more helpful toward Experimenter 2 than infants from the asynchronous movement condition. However, if the two experimenters were not affiliated, synchrony effects on prosociality did not transfer to Experimenter 2. These results show the importance of musical synchrony for social interaction and suggest that infants may use an understanding of third‐party social relationships when directing their own social behaviors.

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“…Infant-directed singing, for example, delays distress in 7-to 10-montholds separated from their parent (Corbeil, Trehub, & Peretz, 2015). Infants were placed in a sound booth with the parent sitting out of sight.…”

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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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Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress

Cited by 101 publications

References 82 publications

Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Communicative Value of Infant-Directed Talking and Singing

Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Communicative Value of Infant-Directed Talking and Singing

Social Effects of Movement Synchrony: Increased Infant Helpfulness only Transfers to Affiliates of Synchronously Moving Partners

Effects of Interpersonal Movement Synchrony on Infant Helping Behaviors

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