Shall We Play the Same? Pedagogical Perspectives on Infants’ and Children’s Imitation of Musical Gestures

Imitation, both gestural and vocal, has been acknowledged to be at the origin of human communication (Donald, 1991). Music is often considered to be the first means of communication of emotion via both vocal and gestural synchronization (Malloch, 1999; Malloch and Trevarthen, 2009). Instrumental mus...

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Main Authors: Manuela Filippa, Maria Grazia Monaci, Susan Young, Didier Grandjean, Gianni Nuti, Jacqueline Nadel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01087/full