Musical Training and Emotional Development
There is a powerful way to fine-tune a child's hearing for the emotional aspects of speech: musical training. Researchers in the Chicago area showed that musically experienced kids—those who studied any instrument for at least 10 years, starting before age 7—responded with greased-lightening speed to subtle variations in emotion-laden cues, such as a baby's cry. (Medina, 2010)
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Jul 13, 2012 11:19AM
Geez, this was my research that I focused on earlier this year. There is another study conducted right here in North Carolina about fetuses differentiating tones and pitches and how the nervouse sytem was already setting up to prewire which language would learn based on tones, inflection, and prosody. It was either Duke or Chapel Hill-- can't remember which one.
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There was also another study conducted on kindergarten children, which I had found, based on learning music at an early age and becoming bilinqual. The data was overwhelming
