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Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure

2025-02-19

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The ability to anticipate rhythmic and melodic structures in music is considered a fundamental human trait, present across all cultures and predating linguistic comprehension in human development. Yet, it remains unclear the extent to which this ability is already developed at birth. Here, we used temporal response functions to assess rhythmic and melodic neural encoding in newborns (N = 49) exposed to classical m...

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Literature Corpus work: 63d525b6-d7c8-5bf0-80be-9426e727be93
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.19.639016

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