Music Research-Toddler

Research reveals strong connections between rhythm skills and pre-reading abilities in toddlers.

- Woodruff Carr K, W.-S.T., Tierney A, Strait D, Kraus N., Beat synchronization and speech encoding in preschoolers: A neural synchrony framework for language development., in Association for Research in Otolaryngology Symposium. 2014: San Diego, CA.

Infants recognize the melody of a song long before they understand the words. They often try to mimic sounds and start moving to the music as soon as they are physically able.© 2015 Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS), a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization

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Research reveals strong connections between rhythm skills and pre-reading abilities in toddlers.Woodruff Carr K, W.-S.T., Tierney A, Strait D, Kraus N. , Beat synchronization and speech encoding in preschoolers: A neural synchrony framework for language development. , in Association for Research in Otolaryngology Symposium. 2014: San Diego, CA.

- Woodruff Carr K, W.-S.T., Tierney A, Strait D, Kraus N., Beat synchronization and speech encoding in preschoolers: A neural synchrony framework for language development., in Association for Research in Otolaryngology Symposium. 2014: San Diego, CA.

Music enhances fine motor skills, or the ability to use small, acute muscle movements to write, use a computer, and perform other physical tasks.Forgeard, 2008; Hyde, 2009; Schlaug et al. 2005, "The Effects of Musical Training on Structural Brain Development A Longitudinal Study," The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1169: 182–186 (2009).

- Forgeard, 2008; Hyde, 2009; Schlaug et al. 2005 "The Effects of Musical Training on Structural Brain Development A Longitudinal Study," The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1169: 182–186 (2009).