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Published on: January 7, 2020
Challenging infant-directed singing as a credible signal of maternal attention
1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ONL5L 1C6, Canada. sandra.trehub@utoronto.ca.
Abstract:
I challenge Mehr et al.'s contention that ancestral mothers were reluctant to provide all the attention demanded by their infants. The societies in which music emerged likely involved foraging mothers who engaged in extensive infant carrying, feeding, and soothing. Accordingly, their singing was multimodal, its rhythms aligned with maternal movements, with arousal regulatory consequences for singers and listeners.
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