Infants' neural and movement responses to music develop substantially in the first year of life
This study investigates how infants develop both neural (auditory) responses and spontaneous movement responses to music during their first postnatal year. Using EEG to measure neural activity and markerless pose estimation to track body kinematics, the research explores the transformation of auditory music encoding into movement patterns. While auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the translation of this input into coordinated movement develops substantially over the first year without reaching full maturity by age one.
Key quotes
Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement.
While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start moving to music is largely unexplored.
This study simultaneously investigates infants' neural (auditory) responses and spontaneous movements to music during the first postnatal year.
Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full maturity.
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