Behavioral and brain rhythms in the millisecond-to-second range are central in human
music, speech, and movement. A comparative approach can further our understanding of …

Empirical aesthetics has found its way into mainstream cognitive science. Until now, most
research has focused either on identifying the internal processes that underlie a perceiver's …

Music exhibits some cross-cultural similarities, despite its variety across the world. Evidence
from a broad range of human cultures suggests the existence of musical universals, here …

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.
Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for …

Dance is ubiquitous among humans and has received attention from several disciplines.
Ethnographic documentation suggests that dance has a signaling function in social …

Isochrony is crucial to the rhythm of human music. Some neural, behavioral and anatomical
traits underlying rhythm perception and production are shared with a broad range of …

It has long been known that the auditory system is better suited to guide temporally precise
behaviors like sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) than the visual system. Although this …

Why does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how
speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to …

The ability to process and act upon incoming sounds during locomotion is critical for survival
and adaptive behavior. Despite the established role that the auditory cortex (AC) plays in …

Dance has become an important topic for research in empirical aesthetics, social and motor
cognition, and as an intervention for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders …