Infant Spontaneous Motor Tempo

Rocha, Sinead; Southgate, Victoria; Mareschal, Denis

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“…Whilst in this case SMS was measured using Motion Capture, which requires specialist equipment, the same analyses can be applied to 2D video data using AI technology, or even by measuring the sound signal produced by the drumming infant (e.g. Rocha et al, 2021). The current data can therefore provide distinct added value to neural measures in finding behavioural markers that are suitable for large scale, low cost, screening for intervention.…”

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“…Infant SMT, as measured via a free drumming task, becomes faster and less variable with age, presumably in line with development of motor control (Rocha, Southgate & Mareschal, 2021). Rocha et al (2021) reported an SMT of drumming close to 2 Hz (542 ms Inter-Onset-Interval; IOI) for infants with a mean age of 11 months. This is notable, as during language acquisition the presence of stressed syllables in the speech signal at approximately 2 Hz intervals may provide a skeletal beat-based structure upon which human language processing builds (Cumming et al, 2015).…”

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Infant sensorimotor synchronisation to speech and non-speech rhythms: A longitudinal study

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Attaheri²,

Choisdealbha³

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Impaired sensorimotor synchronisation (SMS) to acoustic rhythm may be a marker of atypical language development. Here, Motion Capture was used to assess gross motor rhythmic movement at six timepoints between five- and 11-months-of-age. Infants were recorded drumming to acoustic stimuli of varying linguistic and temporal complexity: drumbeats, repeated syllables and nursery rhymes. Longitudinal analyses revealed that whilst infants could not yet reliably synchronise their movement to auditory rhythms, they showed improvement in tempo matching with age. Their ability to decelerate from their spontaneous motor tempo, to better accord with the in-coming tempo, also improved with age. Further, infants became more regular drummers with age, with marked decreases in the variability of spontaneous motor tempo and variability in response to drumbeats. This latter effect was subdued in response to linguistic stimuli. The current work lays the foundation for using individual differences in SMS in infancy to predict later language outcomes.

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Infant sensorimotor synchronisation to speech and non-speech rhythms: A longitudinal study

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“…Investigation of the ontogeny of rhythmic movement may offer unique insights into the origins of this bidirectional relationship. While the ability to synchronize one's movement to music develops slowly across childhood (see [5]), infants from five months of age can produce a spontaneous motor tempo (SMT, or natural rate of rhythmic movement) [6]. The current paper asks if the link between auditory and gross motor rhythm can be in part explained by the prevalent behaviour of infant carrying.…”

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“…In a cross-sectional study of infant drumming over the first years of life, Rocha et al [6] found that infant SMT was predicted by parental body size, but not infant's own body size. Specifically, parent height predicted infant SMT such that infants with taller parents showed a slower SMT than infants with shorter parents.…”

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Rate of infant carrying impacts infant spontaneous motor tempo

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Rhythm production is a critical component of human interaction, not least forming the basis of our musicality. Infants demonstrate a spontaneous motor tempo (SMT), or natural rate of rhythmic movement. Here, we ask whether infant SMT is influenced by the rate of locomotion infants experience when being carried. Ten-month-old, non-walking infants were tested using a free drumming procedure before and after 10 min of being carried by an experimenter walking at a slower (98 BPM) or faster (138 BPM) than average tempo. We find that infant SMT is differentially impacted by carrying experience dependent on the tempo at which they were carried: infants in the slow-walked group exhibited a slower SMT from pre-test to post-test, while infants in the fast-walked group showed a faster SMT from pre-test to post-test. Heart rate data suggest that this effect is not due to a general change in the state of arousal. We argue that being carried during caregiver locomotion is a predominant experience for infants throughout the first years of life, and as a source of regular, vestibular, information, may at least partially form the basis of their sense of rhythm.

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Anticipatory regulation of cardiovascular system on the emergence of auditory-motor interaction in young infants

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YS conceived of the study, designed the study, carried out the experiments, analysed the data, performed the statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript; KO designed the study, carried out the experiments, and participated in the preliminary analysis; HW conceived of the study, designed the study, carried out the experiments, coordinated the study, and critically revised the manuscript; GT conceived of the study, designed the study, coordinated the study, and critically revised the manuscript; SF conceived of the study, designed the study, and helped draft the manuscript. All authors gave final approval for publication and agree to be held accountable for the work performed therein..

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Infant Spontaneous Motor Tempo

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 19 publications

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Infant sensorimotor synchronisation to speech and non-speech rhythms: A longitudinal study

Infant sensorimotor synchronisation to speech and non-speech rhythms: A longitudinal study

Rate of infant carrying impacts infant spontaneous motor tempo

Anticipatory regulation of cardiovascular system on the emergence of auditory-motor interaction in young infants

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