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Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001, 7:43 AM +0100
From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford@scientist.com>
To: evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [evol-psych] Children link musical tempo with emotion
> NATURE SCIENCE UPDATE
> Wednesday 4 April 2001
>
> brain: Kids' got rhythm
> JOHN WHITFIELD
>
> To a three-year-old, the William Tell Overture and Chopin's Funeral March
> probably sound equally jolly, a new study suggests. But by the age of
> about six, children's ability to distinguish happy from sad music is
> fully formed. Five-year-olds, on the other hand, associate slow tempo
> with misery, but are not tuned in to the emotional resonance of major and
> minor keys.
>
> Simone Dalla Bella, of the University of Montreal, and colleagues found
> that children of five and above correctly matched the structure of
> synthesized snippets of classical music [click to see and hear details ]
> to mood more than four-fifths of the time1.
>
> To see which aspects of the music kids were basing their judgements on,
> the researchers then rearranged the pieces, making slow tunes fast, major
> tunes minor and vice versa. Some excerpts had key but not tempo altered,
> others had both qualities changed, and so on.
>
> Full text:
> http://www.nature.com/nsu/010404/010404-10.html
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