Thursday, March 18, 2010

Born to Dance

From ScienceNOW:
Human infants are born to dance, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Psychologists from the United Kingdom and Finland played an assortment of classical and children's songs, drumbeats, baby talk, and regular speech for 120 infants ages 5 to 24 months. Speech inspired little motion, but music consistently got the babies into the groove....
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P.S. Video of a grooving babe.

2 comments:

helmut said...

I could have told you that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq4ZRHmyYKs

MT said...

Yeah, this is a kind of science porn. It's a breakthrough, but through just whatever had been keeping scientists from talking about stuff we all love to talk about.