Everyday Parameters for Episode-to-Episode Dynamics in the Daily Music of Infancy.

ABSTRACT: Experience-dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode-to-episode schedules of experiences on which they are hypothesized to depend have not. Here, we took up this issue in a domain known to be governed in part by early experiences: music. Using a corpus of longform audio recordings, we parameterized the daily schedules of music encountered by 35 infants ages 6-12 months. We discovered that everyday music episodes, as well as the interstices between episodes, typically persisted less than a minute, with most daily schedules also including some very extended episodes and interstices. We also discovered that infants encountered music episodes in a bursty rhythm, rather than a periodic or ra

SUBMITTER: Mendoza JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9542518 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature