Active drumming experience increases infants' sensitivity to audiovisual synchrony during observed drumming actions
Abstract
In the current study, we examined the role of active experience on sensitivity to multisensory synchrony in six-month-old infants in a musical context. In the first of two experiments, we trained infants to produce a novel multimodal effect (i.e., a drum beat) and assessed the effects of this training, relative to no training, on their later perception of the synchrony between audio and visual presentation of the drumming action. In a second experiment, we then contrasted this active experience with the observation of drumming in order to test whether observation of the audiovisual effect was as effective for sensitivity to multimodal synchrony as active experience. Our results indicated that active experience provided a unique benefit above and beyond observational experience, providing insights on the embodied roots of (early) music perception and cognition.
Citation
Gerson , S , Schiavio , A , Timmers , R & Hunnius , S 2015 , ' Active drumming experience increases infants' sensitivity to audiovisual synchrony during observed drumming actions ' , PLoS One , vol. 10 , no. 6 , e0130960 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130960
Publication
PLoS One
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1932-6203Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2015 Gerson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Description
Date of Acceptance: 27/05/2015Collections
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