Journal article
Music training and empathy positively impact adults' sensitivity to infant distress.
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Crying is the most powerful auditory signal of infant need. Adults' ability to perceive and respond to crying is important for infant survival and in the provision of care. This study investigated a number of listener variables that might impact on adults' perception of infant cry distress, namely parental status, musical training, and empathy. Sensitivity to infant distress was tested using a previously validated task, which experimentally manipulated distress by varying the pitch of infant ...
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- Journal:
- Frontiers in psychology
- Volume:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1440
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1664-1078
- Source identifiers:
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503333
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:503333
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- Local pid:
- pubs:503333
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-26
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- 2014
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