27/09/2024
Early aspects of brain structure in babies can set the stage for later success with music.
*The authors, who conducted their study at the Gaab Lab at Harvard, found structural networks in infants’ brains, linked to some of the differences that were previously only observed in the brains of musically trained adults or much older children.
*Both nature (a predisposition for music) and nurture (musical training) are believed to “establish a neural foundation for musicality,” according to the report. The researchers write that they observed structures in the infant brain that “may serve as a scaffold upon which ongoing musical experience can build.
Harvard University
New study is the first to find brain structure in infants predicting musical aptitude