Scientific Facts. 

Hearing is one of the very first senses developed by humans and the brain development is greatly affected by the sounds infant is capable of comprehending.  Here are just some scientific facts, which were collected and used in the process of creating this CD.

• Attention span for the same sound – music or otherwise – is about 30 seconds.

• Infants can remember music for long periods of time. Experiments showed that a music piece played for infants for 3 minutes a day for 7 days became boring on the 8th day, and that they prefer to listen to a novel piece. However, a couple of weeks later, they prefer to listen to the familiar piece over the novel piece. This pattern of preference change is similar to that of adults.

• Habitual paradigm relies on infant’s tendency to pay less and less attention to a repeatedly presented stimulus (habituation).  If the stimulus is changed in a way that makes it seem new to the infant, he will once again pay attention (dishabituation).  Minutes old babies can localize sound sources in space.

• Infants as young as 2 months of age can perceive phonemic distinctions, e.g., differences between ‘ba’ and ‘pa’.

• Infants prefers complex sounds to pure tones at birth.

• There appears to be a biological basis for infants to process music.

• Infants process pitch and temporal differences.

• Infants are capable to recognize music even when the pitch or tempo is altered.