- Abstract:
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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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media SA Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Psychology Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Pages:
- Article 1440
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-11-25
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1664-1078
- Pubs id:
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pubs:503333
- URN:
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uri:c38c3707-1909-4717-a048-f28ce5faa370
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uuid:c38c3707-1909-4717-a048-f28ce5faa370
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- pubs:503333
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- Parsons et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © 2014 Parsons, Young, Jegindø, Vuust, Stein and Kringelbach. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Music training and empathy positively impact adults' sensitivity to infant distress
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