Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy

Infancy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 30(2)

Published: March 1, 2025

ABSTRACT Parents use music, especially singing, to interact with their young children, supporting parent‐child bonding and social communication. Little is known about the parental attributes that support musical interactions infants. In this exploratory study, we analyzed self‐report data from 43 caregiver/infant dyads at up four time points (9, 12, 15, 18 months) assess parent motivation training as predictors of home music environment overall, beliefs in benefits music. We also investigated a predictor language development longitudinally. Parent was stronger than training. Parents' positively related beliefs, overall environment, while only beliefs. Furthermore, singing but not were associated infants' vocabulary comprehension, production, gestures. Results highlight engagement early childhood fundamentally experience emphasize importance parents' active participation (vs. beliefs) experiences infant. The nature infancy may contribute relationships between child development.

Language: Английский

Predictive coding in musical anhedonia: A study of groove

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(4), P. e0301478 - e0301478

Published: April 23, 2024

Groove, or the pleasurable urge to move music, offers unique insight into relationship between emotion and action. The predictive coding of music model posits that groove is linked predictions formed over time, with stimuli moderate complexity rated as most likely engender movement. At same listeners vary in pleasure they derive from listening: individuals musical anhedonia report reduced during listening despite no impairments perception general anhedonia. Little known about anhedonics’ subjective experience groove. Here we examined reward sensitivity. Participants (n = 287) heard drum-breaks varied perceived complexity, each for wanting move. Musical anhedonics 13) had significantly lower ratings compared controls matched on abilities However, both groups demonstrated classic inverted-U & stimulus peaking intermediately complex stimuli. Across our entire sample, were strongly related sensitivity highly (i.e., there was an interaction complexity). Finally, sensorimotor subscale uniquely associated move, but not pleasure, above beyond five other dimensions reward. Results highlight multidimensional nature suggest are driven by overlapping separable mechanisms.

Language: Английский