Prof Emi Hasuo studies how the brain perceives and processes sound rhythm. Surprisingly, the physical rhythm and perceived rhythm are sometimes different. Moreover, sounds of the same rhythm are ...

Scientists have long known that while listening to a sequence of sounds, people often perceive a rhythm, even when the sounds are identical and equally spaced. One regularity that was discovered over ...

While the passage of Public Law 94-142 has increased the mainstreaming of exceptional children in general music classes, little research has been conducted to determine if these children learn music ...

Scientists have found our visual perception dips as our feet hit the ground. Further understanding this could help develop early diagnostics for neuromuscular or psychiatric illness; understand ...

This study investigated the effects of rhythm pattern, texture, beat location of tempo change, and direction of tempo change on the amount of time needed to perceive the change. Eighty-eight subjects ...

Rhythm is important for human music and speech. But are we the only mammal with a sense of rhythm? Researchers show that seals can discriminate rhythm without prior training. Seals' rhythmic ability ...

Adapted from "The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical", by Dr. Henkjan Honing, translated by Sherry Macdonald, The MIT PRESS, 2019. As a music cognition researcher interested ...

Tapping a toe to the beat is something people do unconsciously. Parrots and monkeys have even been known to have quite the knack for keeping rhythm. But there is an animal just as capable of not only ...