Dr. Patricia Kuhl: Music and the Baby Brain

[@adamfaliq8464]

Summary: Exposure to music led to better attention, prefrontal contex, pattern matching, better speech, listening. Music and pattern exposure is important to babies.

[@MusicBrainConnection]

This was great 👏 As a dad who has been incorporating music and teaching my kids a second language since they were born, I've known about the importance of the critical period from my linguistics studies...so this was all so fascinating (and exciting) to see how positive the effects of music can be on child development. Great stuff!

I've loved music above almost everything in my life, loved it since birth, my earliest memories are of my dad doing yardwork while listening to music, I'm the same way I prefer music above television

[@seagecko]

As a mother of a two-month-old Dr. Patricia Kuhl is my new hero. Also I am a firm believer that music has a profound effect on all organisms, I work in an educational greenhouse where music plays continuously. I see the effects on the plants... and naturally on the students.. My daughter has been growing with music since she was conceived.

[@nickrundall]

Rick Beato brought me here. Very interesting. I've been surrounding my 6 month old with music continuously with music since 5 months pre-natal. We have daily sessions on piano, guitar and singing to engage her with music.

[@DissAeon]

Rick brought me here too man, this is really interesting...

[@bryncurtis2791]

Rick brought me too.

[@metfan999]

Nick Rundall i aim to do the same! Hows it going so far?

[@user-qp1jh5vm8m]

Read up

[@Taco_Burrito39]

Does she have perfect pitch?

[@froukjematthews3421]

That is why I think that those working in Early Childhood settings should be highly trained so they know what they are doing and why and learn to observe. Observation is the most important skill an Early Childhood can learn. We should be very particular about who we put in charge and allow to interact with our very most little ones; unfortunately this is not always the case.....

[@shihlue4781]

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[@cindydavidson1562]

They don't get paid enough to spend money on education and parents can't afford the well-educated ones.

[@froukjematthews3421]

@@cindydavidson1562 Hi Cindy, I think that Early Childhood guidance and programs are so important that they should be a policy for any government to put in place. New parents and families with young children should get all the help they need and ask for. In everyday life that is not the case; university lecturers and administrators, these kinds of people get the highest pay and accolades and credits when all those before them have actually done the hard work getting the brain patterns in place and abilities and talents of children and young people to develop. Alas, in the USA in particular they seem to direct children from kindergarten onwards onto paths that lead nowhere with their gender and sexualized 'story books' ...

[@beth8775]

This is very interesting. My baby loves music - this will be a fun thing to do with him.

[@LLLLLLL260]

I'm curious what music with odd time signatures could do to babies' brains.

[@marlenegold280]

I would be curious if this would help babies who come frim families who are tone deaf and rhythm deaf. Could early exposure repair this?

[@Li-yt7zh]

Feasible to perform this type of experiment with twins, for a control group & exposure group where genetics effects are further minimized....? would be critical consideration in any long term study for whether meeting those developmental windows made an impact further down or if time + later experience could bridge any gaps not met early on (the pairs would ideally be in the same environments, have same diets, so on for the duration, def not easy to carry out long-term studies at scale ;)

[@elsalohengrin7777]

Very interesting, trained to pattern, me in classical music also home, realuzed whyvatonal , likebSchoenberg, Stockhausen, is so difficult to sing or listen, to. Itsbatonal, and norlt following the normal, harmonic pattern. Besides as far to my knowlegde, that clasdical music prenatal and after, having an impact, on developing intelligence, is known long time. ( plant experiments, exposed tobclassical music or heavy metal, and and reactions, are known). THX for the greatbtalj. Me studied Biology, went into the field of medical research (Berlin, Germany) and used to be a fac member of the Harvard Med school....

[@PhilHarrisTV]

My little boy normally goes to sleep listening to classical radio. I wonder if the positive cognitive results still occur in this scenario?

[@ArturoStojanoff]

Don't forget that actively engaging with the music is important, like what those babies were doing, where they pounded the drums to the beat, in order for it to have any effect.

[@MichelePardini]

I wonder why is it not highly recommended by doctors to expose babies to music

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

40 hertz is good . Tell the poorest areas how music helps