In 2009, my research group in Amsterdam, in collaboration with colleagues at the HUN-REN Research Center in Hungary, found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse the beat in music.
Astonishingly, these tiny participants displayed an anticipation of the missing beat, as their brains exhibited a distinct spike, signaling a violation of their expectations when a note was omitted.
The results, published last month in Cognition, unequivocally confirm that beat perception is a distinct mechanism essential to our musical capacity.
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