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Emotional responses in mother-infant musical interactions: A developmental perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Elena Longhi
Elena Longhi
Affiliation:
School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London SW15 4JD, United Kingdom. E.Longhi@roehampton.ac.ukhttp://www.roehampton.ac.uk/index.html
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Abstract

With this commentary, I raise two issues relevant to the theoretical framework from a developmental perspective. First, the infants' emotional responses are induced by the music as well as by the multimodal information they perceive in interaction with their mothers, and these responses change with time. Second, contrary to what is suggested in the target article, musical expectancy is already experienced by young infants.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 586 - 587
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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