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, ...
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 ...
Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...
In A Nutshell Newborns can predict musical beats within the first two days of life, but show no brain response to melodic patterns 49 sleeping babies listened to Bach piano pieces while scientists ...
Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.