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Newborn babies can perceive the beat in music, new research has confirmed. The study, carried out by a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam and the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (TTK) in Hungary, shows that this ability to recognise a beat is not simply due to the statistical learning ability of newborns, but that beat perception is actually a separate cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth.
Newborns' Innate Beat Perception: Key to Early Musical Cognition - Neuroscience News Researchers revealed that newborn babies inherently perceive musical beats, a skill separate from their statistical learning ability.
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