Srishti Nayak, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, is the study's lead author and a co-director of the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab. In a paper published in Nature ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking study published Nov. 21 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers have uncovered significant genetic connections between human language abilities and musical rhythm skills ...

What are the origins of musical rhythm? Are humans the only mammals that have rhythm? Researchers have studied indris, the 'singing primates' from Madagascar to learn more. Indri songs recorded in the ...

Rhythm is a central component of music. Rhythm refers to the absolute timing of individual notes or sounds. The ability to perceive and produce rhythm enables people to make music. Research has shown ...

If you've ever said you just "have no rhythm," it turns out you might not have any excuse. A new study found that infants can recognize and learn the rhythm of music within just 48 hours of first ...

The first large-scale genomic study of musicality - published on the cover of today's Nature Human Behaviour - identified 69 genetic variants associated with beat synchronization, meaning the ability ...