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 ...

The study looked at singing in playful versus soothing moods. Elvis once said, “Rhythm is something you either have or don't have." But where does it come from? A new study suggests that Elvis and ...

Beat induction, the ability to pick up regularity -- the beat -- from a varying rhythm, is not an ability that rhesus monkeys possess, researchers have found. Beat induction, the ability to pick up ...

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 ...