Exploration or imitation? The effect of music on 4-week-old infants' tongue protrusions

Susan S Jones

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.08.004

Exploration or imitation? The effect of music on 4-week-old infants' tongue protrusions

Infant Behav Dev. 2006 Jan;29(1):126-30. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.08.004. Epub 2005 Sep 8.

Author

Susan S Jones¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA. jones1@indiana.edu

PMID: 17138267
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.08.004

Abstract

In a newborn imitation paradigm, an auditory stimulus--music--replaced the standard adult behavioral model. Alternating intervals of music and silence affected 4-week-old infants' rates of tongue protruding--evidence that tongue protruding is a general response to interesting distal stimuli.

MeSH terms

Exploratory Behavior*
Humans
Imitative Behavior*
Infant Behavior*
Infant, Newborn
Tongue / physiology*