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The Importance of Music

A collection of research documents and information exploring the importance of music for the Early Years and beyond....

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Singing calms baby longer than talking...

2/6/2017

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​A study by the University of Montreal in 2015 showed that infants remained calm twice as long when listening to a song, which they didn’t even know, as they did when listening to speech.
“Many studies have looked at how singing and speech affect infants’ attention, but we wanted to know how they affect a baby’s emotional self-control,” explained Professor Isabelle Peretz, of the university’s Center for Research on Brain, Music and Language. “Emotional self-control is obviously not developed in infants, and we believe singing helps babies and children develop this capacity.” The study involved thirty healthy infants aged between six and nine months.
“Our findings leave little doubt about the efficacy of singing nursery rhymes for maintaining infants’ composure for extended periods,” Peretz said. “Even in the relatively sterile environment of the testing room-black walls, dim illumination, no toys, and no human visual or tactile stimulation–the sound of a woman singing prolonged infants’ positive or neutral states and inhibited distress.”
The findings are important because mothers, and Western mothers in particular, speak much more often than they sing to their children, missing out on the emotion-regulatory properties of singing.
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ScienceDaily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151028054532.htm
Université de Montréal: http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2015/10/28/singing-calms-baby-longer-than-talking/
DETAILS:
BENEFIT: MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
TARGET GROUP: BABIES
AGE: 6-9 MONTHS
MUSIC TYPE: SINGING
TYPE OF STUDY: ACADEMIC RESEARCH
NOs INVOLVED: 30
PERIOD OF STUDY: UNKNOWN
DATE: 2015
PLACE: CANADA

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    Finn Ros

    I am founder and teacher of Crescendo music and believe passionately in the importance of music for the youngest of our children. Here I will share some documents and links to information by experts in the field of music, education and research, specifically in the early years. 

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