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标题：Human Infants' Perception of Auditory Patterns
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作者：Trehub, Sandra
期刊名称：International Journal of Comparative Psychology
印刷版ISSN：0889-3667
出版年度：1990
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：91-111
出版社：University of California Press
摘要：Human infants' perception of tone sequences or melodies is reviewed in the context of related work with human adults and nonhuman species. For the most part, infants use an adult-like pitch processing strategy that is global and relational rather than the local pitch strategy that is characteristic of the nonhuman species studied to date. Thus they encode and retain the pitch configuration or contour of a melody, with little attention to the absolute pitches of individual notes. In the case of well structured melodies, specifically, melodies that are prototypical of Western music, in- fants encode more precise relations, notably the intervals or exact pitch relations be- tween adjacent notes. Finally, the functional significance of relational pitch processing in human infancy is considered.