BRAIN activity in babies listening to a drum beat suggests they are born with a keen sense of rhythm. The finding might help to spot abnormal brain development at an early age.
Babies under a year old often clap or bounce to a rhythm, but whether they are born with the ability to recognise a beat, or learn it later, was unclear. To find out, a team led by from the Institute for Psychology in Budapest, Hungary, and from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands …
