A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and melody. Researchers have found that babies detect patterns in timing and ...

Researchers prove humans are "musical animals" with a biological blueprint for rhythm and pitch that exists from birth.

A new study looks at differences between the brains of Japanese classical musicians, Western classical musicians and nonmusicians. Researchers investigated specific kinds of neural behavior in ...

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is so fundamental to humans that we recognize patterns ...

Music is intimately associated with experiences of emotions. Rhythmic entrainment is a possible mechanism of emotion that can be evoked by music. Rhythmic entrainment also binds individuals together ...

Andrew J. Milne is affiliated with Dynamic Tonality, a loosely organised collective of researchers and fellow travellers who host a website and build software for facilitating interaction with ...

A study has showed that newborns are capable of yet another impressive cognitive feat even earlier in development. Less than 48 hours after birth, brains of sleeping newborns already follow and ...

Beyond samba, soca, and son, many other Latin traditions continue to inform modern sound design. Colombian cumbia is ...

Music is intimately associated with experiences of emotions. Rhythmic entrainment is a possible mechanism of emotion that can be evoked by music. Rhythmic entrainment also binds individuals together ...