Adults who move together to a shared musical beat synchronously as opposed to asynchronously
are subsequently more likely to display prosocial behaviors toward each other. The …

Highlights • When people move together in synchrony, they later behave more prosocially. •
This effect influences prosociality early, even in young infants. • Synchrony can cue group …

Musical behaviours such as dancing, singing and music production, which require the ability
to entrain to a rhythmic beat, encourage high levels of interpersonal coordination. Such …

Caregivers often engage in musical interactions with their infants. For example, parents
across cultures sing lullabies and playsongs to their infants from birth. Behavioral studies …

When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to
support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal …

Mothers around the world sing to infants, presumably to regulate their mood and arousal.
Lullabies and playsongs differ stylistically and have distinctive goals. Mothers sing lullabies to …

Interpersonal synchrony increases cooperation among adults, children, and infants. We tested
whether increased infant helpfulness transfers to individuals uninvolved in the movement, …

Infants typically experience music through social interactions with others. One such experience
involves caregivers singing to infants while holding and bouncing them rhythmically. …

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People readily extract regularity in rhythmic auditory patterns, enabling prediction of the
onset of the next beat. Recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) research suggests that such …