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NEUROSCIENCES AND MUSIC III: DISORDERS AND PLASTICITY
Volume 1169, Issue -, Pages 287-290Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04845.x
Keywords
melody; development; infant; EEG; relative pitch
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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We examined adults' and 6-month-old infants' event-related potentials in response to occasional changes (deviants) in a 4-note melody presented at different pitch levels from trial to trial. In both groups, responses to standard and deviant stimuli differed significantly; however, adults produced a typical mismatch negativity (MMN), whereas 6-month-old infants exhibited a slow positive wave. We conclude that 6-month-old infants, like adults, encode melodic information in terms of relative pitch distances, but that the underlying cortical activity differs significantly from that of adults.
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