english http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120509123653.htm
english http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245312.php
A group of 6 months old baby's followed music classes for half a year.
There were two kind of classes; half of the group of baby's followed interactive classes, where they were taught songs and played percussion-instruments with their parents. The other half followed passive lessons, where they listened to music during play.
The children who took part in the passive lessons didn't really show any difference after half a year. But the children who participated in the interactive lessons turned out to laugh more, were less stressed and communicated better.
They pointed to objects and waved more than the other children and were less sad when something didn't went the way they wanted.
Also the interactive lessons changed their reaction to music. Baby's who followed the interactive lessons were more sensitive to the structure of music.
Laurel Trainor, director of the Institute for Music and the Mind of the McMaster University stated: "Babies who participated in the interactive music classes with their parents showed earlier sensitivity to the pitch structure in music. Specifically, they preferred to listen to a version of a piano piece that stayed in key, versus a version that included out-of-key notes. Infants who participated in the passive listening classes did not show the same preferences. Even their brains responded to music differently. Infants from the interactive music classes showed larger and/or earlier brain responses to musical tones."
Even though the infants listened to music in both music classes and all infants also listened to a similar amount of music at home, the biggest difference between both classes was that one class experienced an interactive exposure to music.
Study coordinator Andrea Unrau concluded, saying:
"There are many ways that parents can connect with their babies. The great thing about music is, everyone loves it and everyone can learn simple interactive musical games together."
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I believe this really shows the value of letting children play and interact with music at an early age. This is why (real) music-toys as Virtuoso are so important for the development of children. It is not only fun, but playing and interacting with music can stimulate development of communication, take stress away, make children more at ease (instead of all the over-energized toys that only make them over-energized and stressed - like the effect of sugar) and children can create a feeling and affinity for culture and music.
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