How Do Infants Understand and React to Music? – UT Professor Investigates

[TexasTowelie]

For many people, most days would not be complete without music. Whether it's exercising to your favorite playlist or jamming along to the radio on your way home for work.

But how much do infants get out of music? And are there types of music that babies prefer?

A professor at the Children’s Research Laboratory on the University of Texas at Austin campus is trying to find out.

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“We know that infants are drawn to speech," {Dr. Eugenia} Costa-Giomi says. "They prefer to listen to speech {over} almost any other sound and there have been so many studies done on that. However, none of the studies have used sounds that could be classified as music.”

More at http://kut.org/post/how-do-infants-understand-and-react-music-ut-professor-investigates .

[elleng]

1. Thanks.

Sharing this with my daughters.

[TexasTowelie]

2. You're welcome.

It seems like an interesting research.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. It just made me think of the video of that little boy in the car seat sound asleep...

when all of a sudden Gangnam Style comes on the radio...and the little boy's body reacted; dancing before he was even yet awake....much to his big sister's amusement who giggled like a banshee at her baby brother, adding to the comical scene.

Everyone has seen how babies can sometimes just react almost eerily, primordially...there is just something in music, that no doubt about it, reaches and connects to some part in their baby brains spontaneously and innately.

[KT2000]

4. my mother made a point

of playing classical music for my brother and I when we were infants. She wanted to make sure we had an appreciation for music. Would love to see what they find out.