婴儿能分辨快乐和悲伤的音乐 音乐, 婴儿, 快乐

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Babies can tell the difference between happy and sad music

By nine months of age, babies can already tell the difference between jolly(adj.欢快的) jingles(n.叮当声) and sad ones.

Dozens of babies aged between three and nine months were presented with a video image of a male or female actor with a neutral facial expression. Musical excerpts(n.摘录) were played through speakers located near this face.

For three-month-olds, changing the mood of the music made no difference - they were still bored by it and didn't look much in the direction of the face and music. By contrast, for nine-month-olds, changing the mood of the music grabbed their attention(引起注意). They realised it was different and started looking in the direction of the face and music more often. The results for five and seven-month-olds were mixed. A switch from sad to happy music grabbed their attention, but from happy to sad did not - the researchers aren't entirely sure why this is, but it may have something to do with sad music being inherently(adv.内在的，固有的) less interesting.

Although the older babies recognised a change in the mood of the music, it's not clear how much this really meant to them. "We make no claims about whether infants perceived affect in the music or experienced either happiness or sadness while listening to it," the researchers said.

婴儿9个月大之前就已经可以分辨出欢快的和悲伤的叮当声。

把数十名在三到九个月之间的婴儿和一个无表情的男演员或女演员的视频图像放在一起。在靠近这张脸的地方通过扬声器播放一些音乐选段。

对于三个月大的宝宝来说，改变音乐的调子没什么区别，他们还是觉得无聊，而且也不太朝脸和音乐的方向看。相比之下，对于九个月大的宝宝，改变音乐调子引起了它们的注意。他们觉察到了不同而且开始更频繁向脸部和音乐的方向看去。而五和七个月大的宝宝则是两种情况的混合。从悲伤音乐转换到欢快音乐的时候，它们的注意力被吸引住了，但是从欢快音乐转换到悲伤音乐的时候却没有这种效果——研究者们不能完全确定这是为什么，但它可能与悲伤音乐本身没有多大乐趣有关。

虽然大一点的宝宝能辨认出音乐情感上的变化，但目前还不清楚这些变化对他们到底意味着什么。研究人员说：“我们不清楚婴儿在听的过程中是否感知到了音乐的情感，还是在听时亲历了快乐或是悲伤。”

Sylvia_scj

My nephew is 5 months old. Whenever he hears some bad music, he would cry.

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原帖由 Sylvia_scj 于 2009-5-6 17:55 发表
My nephew is 5 months old. Whenever he hears some bad music, he would cry.

wow,that's surpising.