Sing to me, baby
- Autor(en)
- Trinh Nguyen, Susanne Reisner, Anja Lueger, Samuel V Wass, Stefanie Hoehl, Gabriela Markova
- Abstrakt
Infant-directed singing has unique acoustic characteristics that may allow even very young infants to respond to the rhythms carried through the caregiver's voice. The goal of this study was to examine neural and movement responses to live and dynamic maternal singing in 7-month-old infants and their relation to linguistic development. In total, 60 mother-infant dyads were observed during two singing conditions (playsong and lullaby). In Study 1 (n = 30), we measured infant EEG and used an encoding approach utilizing ridge regressions to measure neural tracking. In Study 2 (n =40), we coded infant rhythmic movements. In both studies, we assessed children's vocabulary when they were 20 months old. In Study 1, we found above-threshold neural tracking of maternal singing, with superior tracking of lullabies than playsongs. We also found that the acoustic features of infant-directed singing modulated tracking. In Study 2, infants showed more rhythmic movement to playsongs than lullabies. Importantly, neural coordination (Study 1) and rhythmic movement (Study 2) to playsongs were positively related to infants' expressive vocabulary at 20 months. These results highlight the importance of infants' brain and movement coordination to their caregiver's musical presentations, potentially as a function of musical variability.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie, Department für Verhaltens- und Kognitionsbiologie, Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of East London
- Journal
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Band
- 64
- ISSN
- 1878-9293
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101313
- Publikationsdatum
- 10-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/sing-to-me-baby(4318e8a4-3a36-49b4-a018-06491fcf8082).html