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Kira Vibe Jespersen

@kiravibe.bsky.social
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Research on music, health, sleep, insomnia and relaxation in all combinations. Associate Professor at Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University.

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looking forward to presenting at this wonderful Symposium on Music, Mental Health and Human Flourishing tomorrow at @york.ac.uk. Other speakers include @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social and Liesl van der Merwe. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/c...
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CeMEHF - News
Music, Mental Health, and Human Flourishing Symposium - Friday 26 June, 2026 Join us for 'Music, Mental Health, and Human Flourishing', a joint symposium hosted by the Centre for Music Education and H...
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I am so happy that our book on Music and Sleep is now out! A great resource for anyone interested in the topic 🎶💤 #Lullabyte #MusicScience #SleepMusic
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Such a great experience to host this conference on Music and Sleep.
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Music and Sleep Conference starts in just two days! The book of abstract is now online 😀
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND SLEEP Introducing the second workshop at #ConfMusSleep: Music for Sleep in Hospitals. Led by music therapists Helle Nystrup Lund (Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark) and Line Malmskov (Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark) More info: confmussleep.au.dk #musicscience
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC AND SLEEP Updated Conference Programme 🎶 The definitive programme for the 1st #ConfMusSleep is now live: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa.... Check details on keynotes, workshops, presentations & social events. See you in Aarhus! ✨ #musicscience
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Introducing one of the workshops at #ConfMusSleep: SLUMBER: A Framework for Home-Based Sleep Ex-periments Offering Dynamic Delivery of Auditory Stimuli. Led by Ali Saberi (RadboudUMC, NL), Samuel Morgan (Uni Stuttgart, DE), Tinke van Buijtene (UPF, ES). More info: confmussleep.au.dk #musicscience
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Read more about the program here: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...
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Programme and keynotes
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hvis nogen går rundt på barsel i Hinnerup og omegn og gerne vil vide mere om musik og hjerneforskning, er det muligt på onsdag d. 25. marts. Der holder jeg oplæg om musik og hjerne med fokus på musikaliteten i samspillet mellem forældre og spædbørn. www.kirkenihinnerup.dk/aktiviteter/...
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Barselscafé | Kirken i Hinnerup
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
An interesting new paper on sleep and auditory perception from the perspective of tinnitus! Tinnitus: at a crossroad between phantom perception and sleep url: academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Validate User
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Sylvie Nozaradan @sylvienozaradan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to announce one PhD and one postdoctoral position at the Rhythm & Brains Lab (PI: Pr. Sylvie Nozaradan), Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Brussels. Belgium. Connected to the ERC Consolidator Grant HUMAN RHYTHM. More info attached. Please share! #hiring #Neuroscience #MusicCognition
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🎵⏳ 10 Days Left for Early Bird (Reduced Fare) Early bird registration for #ConfMusSleep ends on 15/03/26. Join us for engaging research at the intersection of science and sound. ✨ Includes welcome reception and conference dinner. We’d love to see you there! Info: confmussleep.au.dk #musicscience
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📅 Updated Conference Programme! We’ve released a new version of the programme of the #ConfMusSleep with updated session times. You can find it and download it here: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa... #musicscience
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New paper out in Music Perception 🎶😀 With @musicinthebrain.bsky.social colleagues, we analyzed YouTube comments and found the first evidence of a link between sleep music motivations and sleep music characteristics 🎷🎸🎻😴 online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/d...
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Motivations for Using Music for SleepA Text Analysis of YouTube Sleep Music Comments
Traditionally, sleep music is viewed as being soft, calm, and with minimal pitch and dynamic changes. However, recent research has shown that this is not necessarily the case. This variation could be ...
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Please put on your headphones and help us rate these small music pieces for sleep use 🎶
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Registration for the Music and Sleep conference is open! Early bird reduced fee until the 15th of March 🕊️
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thanks to generous conference grants from the Carlsberg Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation, we are offering 8 travel scholarships (up to €400 each) for participants of #ConfMusSleep 🎓✈️ The scholarships can cover travel, accommodation, and the conference fee for attendance. #musicscience
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New paper out in Cerebral Cortex🥳🧠💤 Reduced switching between brain states in insomnia: evidence from modeling of fMRI brain dynamics url: academic-oup-com.ez.statsbiblioteket.dk/cercor/artic...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
⏳Deadline extended! The submission deadline for the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep has officially been extended to the 10/12/25. More info here: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa... #ConfMusSleep #musicscience
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 Deadline alert: 01/12 Submit your abstract to the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep! 🔗 Info: confmussleep.au.dk (‘Call for Contributions’) Open to all relevant fields: musicology, music tech, music therapy, psychology, neuroscience, sleep medicine & more. #ConfMusSleep #musicscience
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International Conference on Music and Sleep
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Out now in @commsbio.nature.com! We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking. Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments! 🧠🔄🫀🧪
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳 Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo". Read more here: www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...
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Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Help us learn more about the experience of sleep music. Follow the link: lgfl4ra6vi.cognition.run
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Interesting new research on closed-loop auditory stimulation in sleep www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The effectiveness of auditory stimulation in sleep varies with thalamocortical spindle phase
Slow oscillations and sleep spindles are neural events that both occur during non-rapid eye movement sleep and are implicated in sleep-dependent memor…
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Excellent keynote by Mélanie Strauss on auditory perception during sleep at the #ConfMusSleep 🎶🎺👂
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Vincent Lostanlen @lostanlen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🎶 Test your musical memory! 🎯 tunetwins.amsterdammusiclab.nl @musiccognition.bsky.social and others have made something wonderful: a science game for matching familiar melodies from around the world. Play TuneTwins and help us advance research on music cognition. (Seen at #ICMPC, more to come!)
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TuneTwins
Test your musical memory! Can you find the matching tunes and clear the board? Play TuneTwins to find out — a science game from the University of Amsterdam.
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Looking forward to hearing Prof. Marcus Pearce and the #ConfMusSleep may next year!
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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience
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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🎶🛏️ Call for contributions! The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral). Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk #confmussleep #musicscience
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Music, Mind, Body and Brain @coe-mmbb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Did you know? Emotions in national anthems reveal surprising patterns in geography and culture. 1/2 (continues in comments) Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Musicscience #MusicPsychology #MIR #NationalAnthems #Emotion
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The emotional geography of National anthems - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The emotional geography of National anthems
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Excited to share that Peter Vuust will give the welcome lecture at the 1st Int. Conf. on Music & Sleep! 🎶💤 Director of MIB, Prof. at AU and RAMA, and acclaimed jazz musician, Vuust unites science & creativity. His lecture will explore music neuroscience & predictive coding of music. #ConfMusSleep
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Our Assistant Professor Anna Zamorano has written a really nice piece for videnskab.dk and The Conversation - enjoy the read :-) theconversation.com/neuroscience...
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Neuroscience finds musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us
Can musical training rewire the brain to resist pain?
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Very interesting review on the intimate relationship between sleep and depression. Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression
Sleep disturbances are both a primary symptom of and risk factor for major depressive disorder (MDD). Sleep alterations in MDD include the presence of insomnia or hypersomnia and aberrations in sleep ...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for their generous support for the Music and Sleep Conference. With this contribution, we can create an excellent conference program, and we look forward to welcoming all interested researchers and students. More info: confmussleep.au.dk #ConfMusSleep #Musicscience
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Looking forward to presenting my work for a lot of high school students as part of the Hearts & Minds festival tomorrow. (heartsandminds.fuau.dk) A brief survey distributed among the participants do confirm our previous findings that young people more often use music for sleep!
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
‪Excited to share that the 1. International Conf. on Music & Sleep (May 6–8, 2026) takes place in the stunning Chamber Music Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus 🎶 A bright, elegant venue with views of ARoS. More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk @lullabyte.bsky.social #ConfMusSleep #musicscience ‪‬
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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🚨NEW BLOG🚨 “Conferences, huh. What’s the point?” @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway. #musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
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Conferences, huh. What’s the point?
In this post, Hazel, Katie, and Connor highlight some reasons why you should consider attending an academic conference, supplemented by our recent experience from attending the 18th International C…
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A really amazing project!
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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The first two papers from the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Music & Imagination project are now out, led by the fantastic @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social! First, we built and validated a stimulus set of over 350 music clips varying in genre, familiarity, emotion, etc. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We are excited to announce the 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social, Aarhus, DK, in collaboration with RAMA and @lullabyte.bsky.social. Dates: 6-8 May 2026. #musicscience Please mark your calendars and share the post. musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Looking forward to the third @lullabyte.bsky.social summer camp in Berlin next week! An excellent programme with science discussions, start-up strategies, keynotes, a Sleep Concert and the presentation of the joint artistic project of the PhD students named 'Somnosphere' lullabyte.eu/2025/06/19/l...
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Lullabyte at the Long Night of the Sciences | Lullabyte
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD.…
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Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD. Apply by 25 June 2025. Location: Aarhus, Denmark. Advance your academic career in a leading research environment.
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Babies Don’t Need Mozart Recordings, Just a Parent Who Sings
The salutary effect of music on infants is more about happiness than smarts.
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
How mind wandering and blanking relate to cardiac activity and brain/cardiac relationships? This revised preprint confirms our initial findings, with a full replication of the initial protocol! @corcorana.bsky.social also masterfully extended the paper in several interesting directions! 🧪🧠🫀
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Do you want to learn more about how music is processed in the brain? Join our 2025 summer school on music neuroscience! @musicinthebrain.bsky.social musicinthebrain.au.dk/summer-schoo...
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Summer School 2025
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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Jeg havde en spændende snak med Emma Holtet fra Videnslyd om hvad der sker i hjernen, når vi lytter til musik, og hvordan vi bruger musik i hverdagen. Det blev til en ny episode i podcasten Fuld af viden - Forskernes fredagsbar @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @dg.dk www.spreaker.com/episode/nar-...
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Når musikken rammer hjernen - kan du lytte dig til bedre søvn? - Fuld af viden - Forskernes fredagsbar
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Trinh Nguyen @trinhnguyen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶 While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life
Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...
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