Journal article
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