The Early Years
Music in childhood, from prenatal hearing through adolescence.
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Music is not enrichment. It is infrastructure.
Three labs, working independently, kept finding the same thing in early childhood: that music does load-bearing developmental work before a child can speak. Read together, their studies describe something closer to scaffolding than to a hobby.
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Why fourteen-month-olds help the people who bounce them in time
A McMaster researcher bounced infants in time with a stranger across the room. Minutes later, the babies who had been bounced in sync were more likely to help that stranger when they dropped something. The finding rearranges a small piece of what music does.