Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably ...
Long before infants can clap their hands or bounce to a beat, they already show signs of understanding rhythm. A fresh scientific investigation demonstrates that newborns only a few days old can ...
Two-day-old babies can already sense when a musical beat is off, but their brains show little sign of tracking melodies. That’s the main finding from research that recorded brain activity in 49 ...