Sinead Rocha, Adam Attaheri, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Perrine Brusini, Natasha Mead, Helen Olawole-Scott, Panagiotis Boutris, Samuel Gibbon, Isabel Williams, Christina Grey, Maria Alfaro E Oliveira, Carmel Brough, Sheila Flanagan, Henna Ahmed, Emma Macrae, Usha Goswami
Impaired sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) to acoustic rhythm may be a marker of atypical language development. Here, Motion Capture was used to assess gross motor rhythmic movement at six time points between 5- and 11 months of age. Infants were recorded drumming to acoustic stimuli of varying linguistic and temporal complexity: drumbeats, repeated syllables and nursery rhymes. Here we show, for the first time, developmental change in infants' movement timing in response to auditory stimuli over the first year of life...
March 12, 2024: Developmental Science