Until recently, the literature on rhythmic ability took for granted that only humans are able to
synchronize body movements to an external beat—to entrain. This assumption has been …

Human capacity for entraining movement to external rhythms—ie, beat keeping—is
ubiquitous, but its evolutionary history and neural underpinnings remain a mystery. Recent …

Rhythmic behaviour is ubiquitous in both human and non-human animals, but it is unclear
whether the cognitive mechanisms underlying the specific rhythmic behaviours observed in …

An ecologically-valid approach to the evolutionary origins of rhythmic entrainment in
humans has to address not one but two key issues: first, the capacity to generate acoustic …

Entrainment has been studied in a variety of contexts including music perception, dance,
verbal communication, and motor coordination more generally. Here we seek to provide a …

Coordinated group displays featuring precise entrainment of rhythmic behavior between
neighbors occur not only in human music, dance and drill, but in the acoustic or optical …

Wherever human beings live, and however they may organise their affairs, they gather from
time to time to sing and dance together, often in a ritual setting. In doing so they synchronise …

Neural oscillations align to external stimulus rhythms, such as the recurring onsets in
rhythmic sequences, via neural entrainment—that is, adjustment to the oscillation's phase …

Recently psychologists have taken up the question of whether dance is reliant on unique
human adaptations, or whether it is rooted in neural and cognitive mechanisms shared with …

We propose a decomposition of the neurocognitive mechanisms that might underlie interval-
based timing and rhythmic entrainment. Next to reviewing the concepts central to the …