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Direct linkKirschner, Sebastian; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
The human capacity to synchronize body movements to an external acoustic beat enables uniquely human behaviors such as music making and dancing. By hypothesis, these first evolved in human cultures as fundamentally social activities. We therefore hypothesized that children would spontaneously synchronize their body movements to an external beat at…
Descriptors: Music, Preschool Children, Social Environment, Dance
