ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2023
Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives.
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- Music and speech input in the home environments of Latinx infants.Infant behavior & development · 2026Article
- Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year.eLife · 2026Article
- The reciprocal relationship between maternal infant-directed singing and infant gaze.Musicae scientiae : the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music · 2026Article
- Listening to a Consonant Chord Progression during Live Face-to-Face Gaze Enhances Neural Activity in Social Systems.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- The influence of musicality on expressive fable reading: adult- and child-directed perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of musical intervention during fetal and infant stages on social behavior and neurodevelopment in mice.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mother-Preterm Infant Contingent Interactions During Supported Infant-Directed Singing in the NICU-A Feasibility Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neural encoding of auditory rhythm beyond cortical auditory areas before the age of term.iScience · 2025Article
- Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Temporal patterns in the complexity of child-directed song lyrics reflect their functions.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Motor synchrony, social learning and closeness in group play settings.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Play robots to develop competences.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants' home environment over the first 2 years of life.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Love songs and serenades: a theoretical review of music and romantic relationships.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Melody and Lyrics Are Integrated by Late Infancy During Recognition of Music Learned at Home.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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Abstract
A growing body of research shows that the universal capacity for music perception and production emerges early in development. Possibly building on this predisposition, caregivers around the world often communicate with infants using songs or speech entailing song-like characteristics. This suggests that music might be one of the earliest developing and most accessible forms of interpersonal communication, providing a platform for studying early communicative behavior. However, little research has examined music in truly communicative contexts. The current work aims to facilitate the development of experimental approaches that rely on dynamic and naturalistic social interactions. We first review two longstanding lines of research that examine musical interactions by focusing either on the caregiver or the infant. These include defining the acoustic and non-acoustic features that characterize infant-directed (ID) music, as well as behavioral and neurophysiological research examining infants' processing of musical timing and pitch. Next, we review recent studies looking at early musical interactions holistically. This research focuses on how caregivers and infants interact using music to achieve co-regulation, mutual engagement, and increase affiliation and prosocial behavior. We conclude by discussing methodological, technological, and analytical advances that might empower a comprehensive study of musical communication in early childhood.
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