Various investigations have shown that music has a beneficial influence on the baby's brain. It stimulates their intellectual and creative development, as well as helping them calm down and sleep more peacefully.
In addition, a new study states that at five months babies already have a very good ear for classical music and can distinguish between happy or sad pieces.
Researchers from Brigham Young University (United States) found that, although they were still too young to speak, 96 children between 3 and 9 months reacted differently to a cheerful melody like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony than to a sad or melancholic melody like Seventh Symphony of the same author.
The cheerful melodies consisted of pieces in greater tones with short phrases or structures that were repeated with faster times and melodies, while the sad ones were in minor tones and slower melodies.
Of course, children never cease to amaze us. These types of studies only confirm the great power of emotional communication that babies have, that even before communicating with words they are able to process information related to moods.
On the other hand, as they are not able to say it with words, the facial expressions and body behaviors of the babies are what have allowed us to evaluate the conclusions of the study, which indicates the importance that we should give to the gestural language of our baby to reach To better understand your emotions.
