Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure

• Roberta Bianco ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roberta.bianco@unipi.it

  Affiliations Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-8933

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• Brigitta Tóth,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Felix Bigand,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy

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• Trinh Nguyen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy, Department of Developmental and Biological Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• István Sziller,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at DBC, Szent Imre University Teaching Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

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• Gábor P. Háden,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• István Winkler,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Giacomo Novembre

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neuroscience of Perception and Action Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy

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