Newborns are rhythm-neutral

Infants can hear rhythmic structures that adults in the same culture often lose

TIL that newborns under six months are “rhythm neutral”: they can pick up on rhythms from outside their culture’s traditional music that an adult in their culture wouldn’t necessarily be able to.
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