- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Developmental Psychology: A New Synthesis
- History of Research in Developmental Psychology
- Research Design and Methods: Toward a Cumulative Developmental Science
- Biological Development: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques, and Key Findings
- Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Postnatal Brain Development
- Sex and Sex Differences
- Sensitive Periods in Visual Development
- Perceptual–Motor Relations in Obvious and Nonobvious Domains: A History and Review
- Visual Development
- Auditory and Musical Development
- Development of Face-Processing Ability in Childhood
- Object Perception
- The Development of Reaching Actions
- The Road to Walking: What Learning to Walk Tells Us About Development
- Cognitive Development: An Overview
- Computational Models in Developmental Psychology
- Memory
- Concepts in Development
- Spatial Development
- Categorization
- Causality
- Imitation: Social, Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives
- Development of Attention Networks
- Executive Function
- Reasoning
- The History of Intelligence: New Spectacles for Developmental Psychology
- Imagination
- Moral Development: The Social Domain Theory View
- From Coo to Code: A Brief Story of Language Development
- Speech Perception in Infancy: A Foundation for Language Acquisition
- Syntax Acquisition
- Gesture’s Role in Learning and Development
- Symbols and Symbolic Thought
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The development of auditory perception is examined in relation to (1) identity and location of objects (auditory scene analysis) and (2) musical structure and meaning. Behavioral and brain research converges to indicate that some capacity to process the frequency, pitch, intensity, timbre, location, and timing of sounds is present very early in development, although there is a protracted experience-driven period of plasticity, with adult levels of maturity typically not reached until well in to childhood. Young infants are also able to process aspects of musical structure. At the same time, enculturation to the specific melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure of the musical system of a person’s culture depends on the considerable exposure to that musical system experienced by all members of the culture, and intensive musical training affects the speed and degree of that enculturation.
Keywords: auditory perception, music, pitch, rhythm, auditory scene analysis, sound localization, temporal resolution, melody, harmony, meter
Laurel J. Trainor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior, McMaster University, Canada
Chao He, Rotman Research Institute, McMaster University, Canada
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Developmental Psychology: A New Synthesis
- History of Research in Developmental Psychology
- Research Design and Methods: Toward a Cumulative Developmental Science
- Biological Development: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques, and Key Findings
- Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Postnatal Brain Development
- Sex and Sex Differences
- Sensitive Periods in Visual Development
- Perceptual–Motor Relations in Obvious and Nonobvious Domains: A History and Review
- Visual Development
- Auditory and Musical Development
- Development of Face-Processing Ability in Childhood
- Object Perception
- The Development of Reaching Actions
- The Road to Walking: What Learning to Walk Tells Us About Development
- Cognitive Development: An Overview
- Computational Models in Developmental Psychology
- Memory
- Concepts in Development
- Spatial Development
- Categorization
- Causality
- Imitation: Social, Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives
- Development of Attention Networks
- Executive Function
- Reasoning
- The History of Intelligence: New Spectacles for Developmental Psychology
- Imagination
- Moral Development: The Social Domain Theory View
- From Coo to Code: A Brief Story of Language Development
- Speech Perception in Infancy: A Foundation for Language Acquisition
- Syntax Acquisition
- Gesture’s Role in Learning and Development
- Symbols and Symbolic Thought
- Index
