ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily.
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- Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages.Current biology : CB · 2023Pooled it
- Music and speech input in the home environments of Latinx infants.Infant behavior & development · 2026Article
- Moving, Seeing, Hearing, Smelling and Tasting: How Sensory-Motor Experiences Shape Early Cognitive Development.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Article
- InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- A Feasibility Study of a Music Enrichment Program on Relative Reinforcing Value of Food and Home Environmental Enrichment among Families of Low Socioeconomic Status.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants' home environment over the first 2 years of life.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Early parental vocal contact in neonatal units: rationale and clinical guidelines for implementation.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Preschoolers' home music environment relates to their home literacy environment and parental self-efficacy.PloS one · 2024Article
- Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Article
- Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Nocturnal selective pressures on the evolution of human musicality as a missing piece of the adaptationist puzzle.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures.Nature human behaviour · 2022Article
- Everyday Parameters for Episode-to-Episode Dynamics in the Daily Music of Infancy.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
- The Active Infant's Developing Role in Musical Interactions: Insights From an Online Parent Questionnaire.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Music is universally prevalent in human society and is a salient component of the lives of young families. Here, we studied the frequency of singing and playing recorded music in the home using surveys of parents with infants (
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