Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and
accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children's …

An infant's early contact with music affects its future development in a broad sense, including
the development of musical aptitude. Contact with the mother's voice, both prenatally and …

Performing music is both a joy and a discipline. In this chapter we review the basic tenets of
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as they apply to developing interest and expertise in music …

This chapter surveys the literature on the quantitative effects of early childhood arts and
music education on childhood development. First, the authors establish a theoretical …

When self-determination theory (SDT) researchers study musicians, they find psychological
needs-satisfying experiences and intrinsic motivation in abundance. But learning music is …

Music is increasingly recognized as having a social role, insofar as it is linked to emotional
regulation and to early interactions in infancy and the preschool years. The goal of this meta …

The article highlights connections between music and movement activities and emergent
literacy development among infants and toddlers. I review how music is linked to …

This paper explores the powerful role of musical moments in fostering intimacy for parents
and their hospitalised infant in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Grounded in Malloch & …

Listeners remember the pitch level (key) and tempo of musical recordings they have heard
multiple times. They also have long-term implicit memory for the key and tempo of novel …

Experience‐dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of
developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode‐to‐episode …