The mechanism of infants preference for singers : To investigate communicative function of singing to infant.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25750380
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
• Principal Investigator: Yamane Naoto 国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 専門職研究員 (60550192)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 歌いかけ / コミュニケーション / 乳児 / 母子相互作用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Caregivers sing songs to their infants in everyday life. It’s singing have clear communicative intention such as playful interactions and soothing. I investigated how infants process song itself and how they understand such intention, using both brain response and preferential looking experiment. The brain response demonstrated that infants showed different responses to song compared with speech at early in life. Furthermore eye movement results suggested that not only song itself but also singer’s gaze and singing behavior would be related to infants’ preference to singers.

Free Research Field

乳幼児心理学