Infant memory for musical experiences. Cognition 2000 Oct 16;77(1):B15-23
Date
09/12/2000Pubmed ID
10980255DOI
10.1016/s0010-0277(00)00095-0Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0034676242 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 83 CitationsAbstract
Recent findings suggest that infants can remember words from stories over 2 week delays (Jusczyk, P. W., & Hohne, E. A. (1997). Infants' memory for spoken words. Science, 277, 1984-1986). Because music, like language, presents infants with a massively complex auditory learning task, it is possible that infant memory for musical stimuli is equally powerful. Seven-month-old infants heard two Mozart sonata movements daily for 2 weeks. Following a 2 week retention interval, the infants were tested on passages of the familiarized music, and passages taken from similar but novel music. Results from two experiments suggest that the infants retained the familiarized music in long-term memory, and that their listening preferences were affected by the extent to which familiar passages were removed from the musical contexts within which they were originally learned.
Author List
Saffran JR, Loman MM, Robertson RRAuthor
Michelle Loman Moudry PhD Assistant Professor in the Neurology department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
FemaleHumans
Infant
Male
Mental Recall
Music
Psychology, Child