People unconsciously blink in time with the rhythm of music they are listening to, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by researchers in China."We found that people’s spontaneous eye blinks ...

Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

New research shows that spontaneous eye blinks naturally sync to the beat of music, revealing a hidden form of auditory-motor ...

Investigate how humans worldwide share fundamental rhythmic preferences in music, influenced by diverse cultural backgrounds.

We examined music education majors' ability to reproduce rhythmic stimuli presented in melody and rhythm only conditions. Participants reproduced rhythms of two-measure music examples by immediately ...

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 ...

Early Music, Vol. 42, No. 1 (FEBRUARY 2014), pp. 55-72 (18 pages) This article provides evidence of a performance practice specific to the strophic canzonetta repertory, one that may supplement ...

Rhythm plays an important role in how we perceive and connect with the world around us, even playing a role in our social lives and health. My husband reads to me every night before we go to sleep. We ...