Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infant brains recognize organized music early, while rocking, swaying, and beat-matched movement emerge more slowly. (CREDIT: ...

Babies' brains respond to structured music from as early as three months, but the ability to coordinate movement with a musical beat appears to develop later, shedding new light on how musicality ...

A three-month-old baby may already hear music as something more than a jumble of sounds. The infant brain responds more strongly to organized songs than to the same notes played in a scrambled order.