Before babies can hear, their brains are already wiring for sound
A Johns Hopkins study identifies a previously unknown neural 'shortcut' in mice that organizes the auditory system before birth, offering new insight into how the auditory system prepares to process…
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Before babies can hear, their brains are already wiring for sound
Long before a baby's ears are functional, the brain is already building the circuitry needed for hearing, according to new research from Joh
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eLife·7d agoInfants' neural and movement responses to music develop substantially in the first year of life
Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantial
elifesciences.org·7d ago
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