Abstract
[This corrects the article on p. 492 in vol. 4, PMID: 23966962.].
Highlights
The proliferation of newborn “musical” abilities is accelerating with the ever-increasing use of neurophysiological methods with sleeping newborns
Newborn abilities that have surfaced in recent years include beat detection (Winkler et al, 2009), representation of pitch independent of timbre (Háden et al, 2009), representation of pitch intervals independent of absolute pitch (Stefanics et al, 2009), detection of changes in tonal key (Perani et al, 2010), and lateralized responses to speech and music (Kotilahti et al, 2010; Perani et al, 2010)
The newborn brain registers the aforementioned differences in some manner, but does such registration enrich our knowledge of music processing and its development? The answer is affirmative but with important reservations
Summary
The proliferation of newborn “musical” abilities is accelerating with the ever-increasing use of neurophysiological methods with sleeping newborns. Virtala et al (2013) add to this body of work with their report of newborns’ sensitivity to major vs minor chords and consonant vs dissonant chords. The answer is affirmative but with important reservations.
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