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 ...

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.