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·November 10, 2014·4 min read

Why Beat Deaf Individuals Are Unable to Keep a Beat or Tap Along with Music

Find it hard to clap to a beat? A new study reports beat deafness is due to an inability to synchronize sounds.

Image shows a schematic of hypothesized relationships between performance on Beat tapping and Memory/Sequencing tests.

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·September 16, 2015·2 min read

Rhythmic Memory and Beat Tapping May Be Separate Skills

According to a new study, the ability to tap along to a beat and the ability to remember rhythms appear to be unrelated skills.

Featured Psychology

·October 13, 2015·4 min read

You May Be Musical and Not Even Know It, Psychologist Find

Openness, as indicated by a personality trait test, is a predictor of musical ability, researchers report.

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·February 24, 2016·3 min read

Are There Differences in How Speakers of Other Languages Hear Music?

Researchers investigate whether speaking a different native language has an effect on how we hear music.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 26, 2016·3 min read

Brain Picks Up the Beat of Music Automatically

Researchers report we recognize patterns in music automatically, even with no musical training.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 5, 2017·6 min read

How the Brain Perceives Rhythm

According to researchers, the brain is more biased toward certain musical rhythms than others.

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·June 20, 2017·5 min read

The Story of Music is the Story of Humans

A new report reveals how the development of music is so closely tied to our own evolution.

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·July 5, 2017·3 min read

Writing in Rhythm

A new study focuses on how children learn to write. Quantifying pen movements revealed a process of learning distinct temporal patterns of movement that differentiate a set of features for each symbol.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·December 9, 2017·3 min read

Is There a Musical Method For Interpreting Speech?

A new study evaluates whether musicians have an advantage in understanding speech compared to those without musical training.

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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.

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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·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.