Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an
external rhythm, ranging from finger tap** in time with a metronome to musical ensemble …

Humans possess an ability to perceive and synchronize movements to the beat in music
('beat perception and synchronization'), and recent neuroscientific data have offered new …

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory Winner of the Deems
Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you …

Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Unlike visual art, which is manifest
across space, music is manifest across time. When listeners get carried away by the music …

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 …

Previous research has noted that music can improve gait in several pathological conditions,
including Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and stroke. Current research into …

Distortions in time perception and timed performance are presented by a number of different
neurological and psychiatric conditions (eg Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, attention …

Little is known about the underlying neurobiology of rhythm and beat perception, despite its
universal cultural importance. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to …