Music Professor Eugenia Costa-Giomi is conducting musical cognition research on infants, and she’s found that babies pay better attention to characteristics of music than adults do.
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Infants more tuned in than adults
By Tim Green
Tim Green
Published: Nov. 5, 2010Comments disabled No Comments
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This is really amazing. My daughter is 11 now. Trying to think back when we she was really young and we were watching/listening to music types of videos etc with her. She was definitely very focused. I am a musician and she was exposed to lots of various types of music very early. I have musicians going back several generations on both sides. My two brothers & I were all exposed to music at a very early age.
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