Babies Are Born to Dance
Mon Mar 15, 3:25 pm ET
Babies love a beat ritim, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants bebek.
The research showed babies respond karşılık vermek to the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it more engaging çekici than speech konuşma.
The findings, based on a study of 120 infants between 5 months and 2 years old, suggest that humans may be born with a predisposition yatkınlık to move rhythmically in response to music.
"Our research suggests that it is the beat rather than other features of the music, such as the melody, that produces the response in infants," said researcher Marcel Zentner, a psychologist at the University of York in England. "We also found that the better the children were able to synchronize their movements with the music, the more they smiled."
To test babies' dancing disposition eğilim; yaradılış, the researchers played recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, and videotaped videoya almak the results. They also recruited toplamak professional ballet dancers to analyze how well the babies matched their movements to the music.
During the experiments, the babies were sitting on a parent's lap kucak, though the adults had headphones kulaklık to make sure they couldn't hear the music and were instructed bilgilendirmek not to move.
The researchers found the babies moved their arms, hands, legs, feet,torsos gövde and heads in response to the music, much more than to speech.
Though the ability appears to be innate doğuştan in humans, the researchers aren't sure why it evolved geliştirmek; gelişmek.
"It remains to be understood why humans have developed this particular predisposition," Zentner said. "One possibility is that it was a target of natural selection for music or that it has evolved for some other function that just happens to be relevant for music processing."
Zentner and his colleague iş arkadaşı Tuomas Eerola, from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of Jyvaskyla, in Finland, detailed their findings sonuç in the March 15 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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