The experience of musical rhythm is a remarkable psychophysical phenomenon, in part
because the perception of periodicities, namely pulse and meter, arise from stimuli that are …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Our sense that a waltz is" in three" or a blues song is" in four with a shuffle" comes from our
sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical …

Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of research relating to the temporal aspects of
music perception and cognition. This topic has quite a history as a research topic, having …

Long-term and culture-specific experience of music shapes rhythm perception, leading to
enculturated expectations that make certain rhythms easier to track and more conducive to …

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE cross-cultural musical understanding
of trained and untrained listeners from two distinct musical cultures by exploring the …

While widely acknowledged in the cultural evolution literature, ecological factors—aspects of
the physical environment that affect the way in which cultural productions evolve—have not …

There has been some evidence for categorical perception of rhythm. This process of
perceiving the rhythmic structure for a performance is characterized by an increased …

Parallels between language and music are considered as a useful basis for examining
possible evolutionary pathways of these achievements. Such parallels become apparent if …