By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Feb. 6, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Even before they can crawl or speak, infants are ...

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

We tend to think of music as completely cultural—something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and ...

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 ...

Even at a few days old, researchers found that babies were forming predictions based on rhythmic structure.

Brain scans and signals show babies can sort images and sense rhythm, offering new insight into how infant brains are wired from the start.

Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

Researchers looked at a connection between how infants process musical rhythm and language. We break it down.

Music is intimately associated with experiences of emotions. Rhythmic entrainment is a possible mechanism of emotion that can be evoked by music. Rhythmic entrainment also binds individuals together ...