Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...

Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

We tend to think of music as completely cultural—something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and ...

Newborns predict musical beats but show no response to melodies. The surprising reason rhythm dominates infant brains from ...

Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

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 ...