{"pk":4988,"title":"Human Infants' Perception of Auditory Patterns","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Human infants' perception of tone sequences or melodies is reviewed in the context of related work with human adults and nonhuman species. For the most part, infants use an adult-like pitch processing strategy that is global and relational rather than the local pitch strategy that is characteristic of the nonhuman species studied to date. Thus they encode and retain the pitch configuration or contour of a melody, with little attention to the absolute pitches of individual notes. In the case of well structured melodies, specifically, melodies that are prototypical of Western music, infants encode more precise relations, notably the intervals or exact pitch relations between adjacent notes. Finally, the functional significance of relational pitch processing in human infancy is considered.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"International Journal of Comparative Psychology"},{"word":"Behavior"},{"word":"Behaviour"},{"word":"Behavioral Taxonomy"},{"word":"learning"},{"word":"cognition"},{"word":"Cognitive Processes"},{"word":"human"},{"word":"Infants"},{"word":"perception"},{"word":"Auditory"},{"word":"Pattern"}],"section":"Research Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16v3r1bs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sandra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Trehub","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-10-04T22:18:41Z","date_accepted":"2012-10-04T22:18:41Z","date_published":"2012-10-04T22:52:24Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/4988/galley/2869/download/"}]}