Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing.

ABSTRACT: Infant-directed singing has unique acoustic characteristics that may allow even very young infants to respond to the rhythms carried through the caregiver's voice. The goal of this study was to examine neural and movement responses to live and dynamic maternal singing in 7-month-old infants and their relation to linguistic development. In total, 60 mother-infant dyads were observed during two singing conditions (playsong and lullaby). In Study 1 (n = 30), we measured infant EEG and used an encoding approach utilizing ridge regressions to measure neural tracking. In Study 2 (n =40), we coded infant rhythmic movements. In both studies, we assessed children's vocabulary when they were 20 months old. In Study 1, we found above-threshold neural tracking of maternal singing, with superior tracki

SUBMITTER: Nguyen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10618693 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature