Journal article
Preference for Sensory Consonance in 2- and 4-Month-Old Infants
Abstract
The preferences of 2- and 4-month-old infants for consonant versus dissonant two-tone intervals was tested by using a looking-time preference procedure. Infants of both ages preferred to listen to consonant over dissonant intervals and found it difficult to recover interest after a sequence of dissonant trials. Thus, sensitivity to consonance and dissonance is found before knowledge of scale structure and may be based on the innate structure of …
Authors
Trainor LJ; Tsang CD; Cheung VHW
Journal
Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 187–194
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
December 1, 2002
DOI
10.1525/mp.2002.20.2.187
ISSN
0730-7829