{"id":184698,"date":"2018-07-01T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=184698"},"modified":"2018-07-01T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T22:15:37","slug":"preborn-babies-sing-mozart-mickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preborn-babies-sing-mozart-mickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Preborn babies ‘sing’ to Mozart, Christmas carols, and Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After playing a wide variety of music for 300 preborn babies,\u00a0researchers from Spain released the results of their intriguing study in June. These babies were 18 to 38 weeks old, and their love for classical and traditional music was easy to observe. The tiny children were treated to an eclectic concert of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Christmas carols, Adele, Queen, and more.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a> was conducted by the\u00a0Institut Marqu\u00e8s, in Barcelona, Spain. The\u00a0Institut published an earlier study in 2015, concluding that “preborn babies\u00a0can hear and respond to music<\/a> much sooner than previously believed. ‘For the first time ever,’ it can be scientifically proven that a preborn baby detects and responds to sound at 16 weeks gestation” or when the baby is only 4.3 inches long. Naturally, the Institut Marqu\u00e8s\u00a0now wanted to know which kind of musical sounds these children preferred.<\/p>\n

In its 2015 study, the Institut captured preborn babies appearing to sing along to music when they heard it.\u00a0This trend continued in the most recent study:<\/p>\n