Infant brain responds with error signal when beat is disturbed, study finds
by Robin Nixon
updated 2:54 p.m. PT, Mon., Jan. 26, 2009
Newborns can follow a rhythm, a new study has found, suggesting rocking out is innate.
The finding, published in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds to growing evidence that the newborn brain is not the blank slate it was once thought to be.
Rather, scientists have shown, at birth we already have sophisticated methods for interpreting the world. Discrimination may be crude, explained lead researcher István Winkler of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, but "the basic algorithms are in place already." Continue reading...
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