Musilanguage, long-term emotional memory, and the musical perception of the baby

Background: The primitive presence of musilanguage suggests that music plays a structuring role in human language. Linked to emotional phenomena, it evokes long-term collective memories independent of semantic meaning. Due to their innate musical perception, babies respond to musical stimuli in late pregnancy and early infancy before understanding spoken language. This may indicate a long-term memory shaped by musilanguage. This article proposes methods to assess musilanguage and its perceptual responses in babies aged 10 to 12 months, during the immediate pre-verbal period. Objective: The study aimed to investigate if long-term collective memory, genetically transmitted, manifest in the brain of newborns, in theirs pre-verbal stage. Methods: This study combines an experimental research on a topic that receives very little research attention. The research will analyse babies' responses to musical and linguistic stimuli, while the literature review will be used to integrate and compare previous findings on the relationship between music and language. Results: We anticipate concluding that the understanding of musilanguage and its neurocognitive parallels has therapeutic potential. Furhermore, neuroscientific methods would justify therapeutic responses caused by music and would indicate new treatment possibilities. Conclusions: The analysis of the parasympathetic autonomic response of babies when exposed to lullabies and emotionally tense music will prove the presence of an ancestral memory. Keywords: Musilanguage, Infant, Music perception.