Babies can recognize music from birth!
Can babies pick up patterns from music while sleeping?
Yes.
Babies, while sleeping, were hooked up to EEG (encephalograph), which is an instrument that measures brain activity using electrodes placed on the scalp.
"The results were exciting, demonstrating newborns had a sense of pitch from birth, and this was not something learned through experience as had previously been thought. The experiments showed they are even sensitive to the beat in music." (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226082517.htm)
“While it remains unclear whether a capacity for music is rooted in nature, rather than nurture, it is clear that musical competence is a special human capacity, shared across ages and cultures.” says project partner, Henkjan Honing.
Although the ability to detect musical patterns is present from birth, music cognition develops throughout life. However, music cognition is influenced not so much by musical expertise, as by experience. According to Honing, “Frequent listening to a certain musical genre allows listeners without formal musical training to become experts in that musical style.”
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226082517.htm)
Music is INNATE! Well, DUH!!!!
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