Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Research updateContrasting conceptions of human infants
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Attachment and culture
In a debate on the universal relevance of attachment theory, Fred Rothbaum (Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA) argued that current views are ethnocentric and originate from Western values such as autonomy, self-expression and exploration. Thus, they are largely irrelevant to Eastern cultures (and to Western subcultures) that value interdependence and harmony.
Rothbaum noted that identical parental behaviours can have positive connotations in one cultural milieu and negative connotations in
Music processing in infancy
Increasing consideration of the evolutionary origins of music [4] is generating interdisciplinary interest in naı̈ve listeners’ perception of music. The presumption is that nature's contribution should be most readily apparent in infancy, before culture has left its indelible mark. A number of papers at this meeting examined infants’ memory for musical patterns and musical preferences. Beatriz Ilari (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada) provided 8-month-old infants with ten days of
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