TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Revisiting the Innate Preference for Consonance
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Plantinga, Judy
A1  - Trehub, Sandra E.
SP  - 40
EP  - 49
VL  - 40
IS  - 1
N2  - : 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033471
ID  - ref1
ER  -