Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Humans' ability to synchronize movement with auditory rhythms relies on motor networks,
such as cortical areas, basal ganglia and the cerebellum, which also participate in rhythm …

Music makes us move, and using bass instruments to build the rhythmic foundations of
music is especially effective at inducing people to dance to periodic pulse-like beats. Here …

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

The ability to extract rhythmic structure is important for the development of language, music,
and social communication. Although previous studies show infants9 brains entrain to the …

Humans perceive and spontaneously move to one or several levels of periodic pulses (a
meter, for short) when listening to musical rhythm, even when the sensory input does not …

Music often triggers a pleasurable urge in listeners to move their bodies in response to the
rhythm. In music psychology, this experience is commonly referred to as groove. This study …

Music listening often entails spontaneous perception and body movement to a periodic
pulse‐like meter. There is increasing evidence that this cross‐cultural ability relates to …

In music psychology, the experience of wanting to move in response to music is commonly
known as feeling the groove. According to the psychological model of musical groove by …

Experiencing music often entails the perception of a periodic beat. Despite being a
widespread phenomenon across cultures, the nature and neural underpinnings of beat …