Word: kagan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They not only preferred consonant music, but they disliked dissonant music," Kagan said...
...study was conducted by Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan and Marcel R. Zentner, who was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard last year and is now at the Institute of Psychology in Geneva, Switzerland...
...Kagan and Zentner created a tape of alternating consonant and dissonant sounds using a synthesizer at MIT. They then played the tape individually to 32 four-month-old babies and videotaped their responses...
Other members include Ellen Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of History; Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial church; Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology; Sandra Naddaff, Senior Lecturer on Literature and Master of Mather House; and Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Harvard College. Three undergraduates will also sit on the committee, including leaders of the major undergraduate public service organizations...
...addition to the student members, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 is an ex-officio member of the committee. Other faculty members are Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, Sandra A. Naddall, master of Mather House and a senior lecturer in literature, and Jerome Kagan, Starch professor of psychology. One additional faculty member will be named to the ad-hoc committee...