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·June 2, 2025·4 min read

How Rhythm Rewires the Brain Moment by Moment

When you listen to a steady rhythm, your brain doesn’t just process it—it reconfigures itself in real time. A new study introduces FREQ-NESS, an advanced neuroimaging method that reveals how different frequencies of brainwaves form dynamic networks across the brain.

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·May 3, 2025·3 min read

Your Brain and Body Literally Sync to Music

A new international study supports Neural Resonance Theory (NRT), which suggests that music perception and enjoyment arise from natural brain and body oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody, and harmony. Unlike prediction-based models, NRT proposes that our brains physically resonate with music, shaping timing, pleasure, and the instinct to move.

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·November 29, 2024·5 min read

Shared Genetics Link Musical Rhythm and Language Skills

A new study reveals shared genetic underpinnings between musical rhythm abilities and language-related traits, including dyslexia. Using data from over 1 million individuals, researchers identified 16 overlapping genome regions tied to rhythm and language, with key roles in brain connectivity.

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·March 25, 2024·6 min read

Can Rhythm Sense Predict Language Skills?

Researchers developed the Speech-to-Speech Synchronization (SSS) test to explore how individuals align their speech with language rhythms, revealing innate differences that could influence language acquisition and neurological health. The study found that individuals can be categorized into high and low synchronizers, with high synchronizers displaying stronger neural connections related to language perception and production.

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·March 4, 2024·7 min read

Rhythm in the Brain: Music Exposure Influences Rhythmic Interpretation

A new study involving participants from 15 countries, shed light on the universal preference for simple integer ratios in rhythms, revealing significant cultural variations in musical perception. This research, conducted with 39 groups, including people from traditional societies, indicates that while there's a common bias towards certain rhythmic structures, the specific preferences can differ markedly across cultures.

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·November 15, 2022·3 min read

Seals’ Sense of Rhythm May Give Us Answers About Our Own Musicality

Seals can distinguish between and react differently to changes in rhythm. The findings shed new light on musicality.

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·January 28, 2022·2 min read

Babies Are Sensitive to Rhyme, Rhythm and Phrases in Children’s Songs

Babies are sensitive to language patterns in the soothing rhymes their parents sing them.

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·July 9, 2021·5 min read

Understanding Our Perception of Rhythm

When perceiving rhythm, the brain makes two separate decisions based on grouping and prominence. The groupings mutually inform each other to generate an overall rhythmic perception.

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·November 26, 2019·3 min read

The human brain is prepared to follow the rhythm of a song or of a dance

Regardless of musical training, a person's brain synchronizes with the rhythm of music, but musicians' brain responses are much stronger and more resistant to distraction.

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·May 10, 2019·3 min read

Mathematical framework explores how the brain keeps a beat

A new mathematical model can predict how the brain reacts when learning a rhythmic beat. The model shows how a neural network can act as a 'neural metronome' by estimating time intervals between beats within tens of milliseconds. The metronome relies on gamma oscillations to keep track of time.

Autism Featured Psychology

·September 14, 2018·4 min read

Drumming Helps School Children with Autism

According to researchers, drumming for an hour a week helps improve learning at school for children on the autism spectrum. The study reports drumming not only improves dexterity, rhythm and timing for those with ASD, it also helps improve concentration and enhances communication with peers.

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·March 30, 2018·7 min read

From Lullabies to Live Concerts: How Music and Rhythm Shape Our Social Brains

Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom simultaneously. Additionally, playing music to babies help increase their attention and positive displays of emotion to their mothers.