Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

H Merchant, J Grahn, L Trainor… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production

RJ Zatorre, JL Chen, VB Penhune - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
Music performance is both a natural human activity, present in all societies, and one of the
most complex and demanding cognitive challenges that the human mind can undertake …

[HTML][HTML] Syncopation, body-movement and pleasure in groove music

MAG Witek, EF Clarke, M Wallentin, ML Kringelbach… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related to musical groove.
Structurally, music associated with groove is often characterised by rhythmic complexity in …

Listening to musical rhythms recruits motor regions of the brain

JL Chen, VB Penhune, RJ Zatorre - Cerebral cortex, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Perception and actions can be tightly coupled; but does a perceptual event dissociated from
action processes still engage the motor system? We conducted 2 functional magnetic …

Feeling the beat: premotor and striatal interactions in musicians and nonmusicians during beat perception

JA Grahn, JB Rowe - Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

Sensorimotor coupling in music and the psychology of the groove.

P Janata, ST Tomic, JM Haberman - Journal of experimental …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The urge to move in response to music, combined with the positive affect associated with the
coupling of sensory and motor processes while engaging with music (referred to as …

Joint drumming: Social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children

S Kirschner, M Tomasello - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
The human capacity to synchronize body movements to an external acoustic beat enables
uniquely human behaviors such as music making and dancing. By hypothesis, these first …

Perceiving temporal regularity in music

EW Large, C Palmer - Cognitive science, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We address how listeners perceive temporal regularity in music performances, which are
rich in temporal irregularities. A computational model is described in which a small system of …