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ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2025

The Development of Dance in Early Childhood.

Laura K Cirelli, Haley E Kragness

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  1. 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 Studies
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Laura K CirelliDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1374-8558
Haley E KragnessDepartment of Psychology, Bucknell University.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3137-7655

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dancing to music is prevalent across human cultures. It is also developmentally precocious-most children display dance-like behaviors before their first birthday. This early emergence precedes a long maturational trajectory with broad individual differences. Here, we survey recent research on dance in infancy and childhood. We propose that investigating early musical movements is useful for understanding the development of dance itself and that dance can serve as a behavioral measure to better understand development in adjacent domains, such as auditory perception and musical memory. Finally, we discuss potential developmental mechanisms underlying early dance and highlight major remaining questions. Studying early dance provides an opportunity to highlight how fundamental processes in psychology, such as nature-nurture interactions, individual differences, and the interplay between abilities and environments, can impact the emergence and expression of this social and multimodal human behavior.

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dancedevelopmental psychologyearly childhoodinfancymusic cognition

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PMID41041649
PMCPMC12488047

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