Babies and Music: Exploring the Research

Babies: so adored, so cherished, and so mysterious! Did you know that the baby's most developed sense, before birth, is the sense of hearing? By studying fetal hearing and memory, scientists have learned to unravel a tiny piece of the mystery of how the unborn and newborn baby hears, remembers, and even thinks. Visit the Music Together Expert's Blog to find out how Music Together director Julia Priest reports on three current studies that explore how fetuses, babies, and newborns perceive and experience sound—and, in turn, music!