Two-day-old babies can already sense when a musical beat is off, but their brains show little sign of tracking melodies. That’s the main finding from research that recorded brain activity in 49 ...

The origins of musical prediction in humans have long been debated. We know that by 35 weeks of gestation, fetuses exhibit physiological responses to sound, such as changes in heart rate. However, the ...

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights ...