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Study suggests babies are born with a sense of rhythm

Researchers found that babies as young as two-days-old could predict rhythm while listening to classical music. The post Study suggests babies are born with a sense of rhythm appeared first on Talker.
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Insights into evolution and music from babies

"Babies crawl rhythmically. They flail their arms rhythmically. Their heartbeats are rhythmic. So in biological systems, ...
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Babies Are Born Ready for Rhythm, While Melody Takes Time, Study Suggests

Newborns predict musical beats but show no response to melodies. The surprising reason rhythm dominates infant brains from ...

Born to the Beat: Newborns Show Innate Understanding of Musical Rhythm

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

Two-day-old babies show brain signs of rhythm prediction, study finds

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS ...
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Scientists Played Bach to Sleeping Newborns and Discovered They Can Track Rhythm Just 48 Hours After Birth

In a study published February 5th in PLOS Biology, researchers played piano sonatas by J.S. Bach to sleeping newborns (some ...

‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find

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

Can't solve a puzzle? Sleep on it, a new study suggests

NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.