@article{ref1,
title="Revisiting the Innate Preference for Consonance",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2014",
author="Plantinga, Judy and Trehub, Sandra E.",
volume="40",
number="1",
pages="40-49",
abstract=": The origin of the Western preference for consonance remains unresolved, with some suggesting that the preference is innate. In Experiments 1 and 2 of the present study, 6-month-old infants heard six different consonant/dissonant pairs of stimuli, including those tested in previous research. In contrast to the findings of others, infants in the present study failed to listen longer to consonant stimuli. After 3 minutes of exposure to consonant or dissonant stimuli in Experiment 3, 6-month-old infants listened longer to the familiar stimulus, whether consonant or dissonant. Our findings are inconsistent with innate preferences for consonant stimuli. Instead, the effect of short-term exposure is consistent with the view that familiarity underlies the origin of the Western preference for consonant intervals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/a0033471",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033471"
}