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Older but not younger infants associate own‐race faces with happy music and other‐race faces with sad music

Abstract

We used a novel intermodal association task to examine whether infants associate own- and other-race faces with music of different emotional valences. Three- to 9-month-olds saw a series of neutral own- or other-race faces paired with happy or sad musical excerpts. Three- to 6-month-olds did not show any specific association between face race and music. At 9 months, however, infants looked longer at own-race faces paired with happy music than …

Authors

Xiao NG; Quinn PC; Liu S; Ge L; Pascalis O; Lee K

Journal

Developmental Science, Vol. 21, No. 2,

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

3 2018

DOI

10.1111/desc.12537

ISSN

1363-755X