Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.
Courtney B. Hilton, Liam Crowley-de Thierry, Ran Yan, Alia Martin, Samuel A. Mehr
Abstract
= 98,150). Moreover, similar acoustical features were predictive of the inferences of both samples. These findings suggest that accurate inferences about the behavioral contexts of music, driven by universal links between form and function in music across cultures, do not always require extensive musical experience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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