What they discovered is extraordinary: Even two-day-old newborns could process the rhythms in the Bach piano sonatas played.
Getting rhythm, to paraphrase the late Johnny Cash, is not something we learn, but is "part of our biological toolkit."That's according to researchers who played Bach to dozens of babies who appeared ...
If you have ever been moved by the beat of a drum or enchanted by a song, or if you have meandered through YouTube to watch animals from elephants to dancing cockatoos swaying and bopping to music, ...
We tend to think of music as completely cultural—something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and ...
Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...
A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...
Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.