Reason for a baby to react on a certain music sound

Abstract

A baby who only responds to Cheer Up, the song of a popular idol group 'Twice', attracted the attention, which brought a curiosity of the reason why only certain music causes early childhood interest in hearing. Children's responses only to specific sound of music that are differ by each were being observed in many cases by their representations of a pleasant emotional state of their own, such as dancing, but never studied, because each child reacted to a different music of their choices, restriction of gathering samples existed. In this study, analysis started from representing case. The song, 'Cheer Up' by 'Twice', was analyzed to find out the reason why a baby responded to such music at first, and then sharing acoustical and children's psychological characteristics were studied in different cases to support found reason of the early childhood interest in hearing at 'Cheer Up' analysis. Musics that infants were interested in have uniform distribution of sound energy among all transliteration. Although those musics do not contain focused sound energy in certain frequency region or similar sound peaks, they have the characteristics of hook song that are consisted of strong rhythms and beat, and repeating melody that are easy to mimic. Singing voice in 'Cheer Up' by Twice also showed similar acoustical characteristics of laughing sound of a child, and that concludes the reason why 'Cheer Up' stimulates child's interest in hearing, such music causes a child to reminiscent about the moment of laughing, which also reminds him how others were reacted on his action to lead out same behavior by hearing hat specific music. © 2017 International Information Institute.