How the melody facilitates the message and vice versa in infant learning and memory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1169, Issue , 2009, Pages 225-233

  Thiessen, Erik D ^c   Saffran, Jenny R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant learning; Infant memory; Lyrics; Melody; Redundant cues

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPEECH; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 68649092558     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04547.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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