Bebekler Doğuştan Dansçılar
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Babies are Born to Dance
03/17/2010 15:34:21
Babies Are Born to Dance
Mon Mar 15, 3:25 pm ET
Babies love abeat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally toinfants.
The research showed babiesrespondto the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it moreengagingthanspeech.
The findings, based on a study of 120 infants between 5 months and 2 years old, suggest that humans may be born with apredispositionto 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' dancingdisposition, the researchers played recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, andvideotapedthe results. They alsorecruitedprofessional ballet dancers to analyze how well the babies matched their movements to the music.
During the experiments, the babies were sitting on a parent'slap, though the adults hadheadphonesto make sure they couldn't hear the music and wereinstructednot to move.
The researchers found the babies moved their arms, hands, legs, feet,torsosand heads in response to the music, much more than to speech.
Though the ability appears to beinnatein humans, the researchers aren't sure why itevolved.
"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 hiscolleagueTuomas Eerola, from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of Jyvaskyla, in Finland, detailed theirfindingsin the March 15 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bebekler Doğuştan Dansçılar - Babies are Born to Dance
Babies Are Born to Dance
Mon Mar 15, 3:25 pm ET
Babies love abeat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally toinfants.
The research showed babiesrespondto the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it moreengagingthanspeech.
The findings, based on a study of 120 infants between 5 months and 2 years old, suggest that humans may be born with apredispositionto 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' dancingdisposition, the researchers played recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, andvideotapedthe results. They alsorecruitedprofessional ballet dancers to analyze how well the babies matched their movements to the music.
During the experiments, the babies were sitting on a parent'slap, though the adults hadheadphonesto make sure they couldn't hear the music and wereinstructednot to move.
The researchers found the babies moved their arms, hands, legs, feet,torsosand heads in response to the music, much more than to speech.
Though the ability appears to beinnatein humans, the researchers aren't sure why itevolved.
"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 hiscolleagueTuomas Eerola, from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of Jyvaskyla, in Finland, detailed theirfindingsin the March 15 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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