Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning

AD Patel - BMC neuroscience, 2024 - Springer
Dancing to music is ancient and widespread in human cultures. While dance shows great
cultural diversity, it often involves nonvocal rhythmic movements synchronized to musical …

Theoretical and empirical advances in understanding musical rhythm, beat and metre

JS Snyder, RL Gordon, EE Hannon - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
The rhythmic elements of music are integral to experiences such as singing, musical
emotions, the urge to dance and playing a musical instrument. Thus, studies of musical …

Regular rhythmic primes improve sentence repetition in children with developmental language disorder

A Fiveash, E Ladányi, J Camici, K Chidiac… - npj Science of …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently reported links between rhythm and grammar processing have opened new
perspectives for using rhythm in clinical interventions for children with developmental …

Exploring the genetics of rhythmic perception and musical engagement in the Vanderbilt Online Musicality Study

DE Gustavson, PL Coleman, Y Wang… - Annals of the new …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Uncovering the genetic underpinnings of musical ability and engagement is a foundational
step for exploring their wide‐ranging associations with cognition, health, and …

Using motor tempi to understand rhythm and grammatical skills in developmental language disorder and typical language development

E Ladányi, M Novakovic, OA Boorom… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) show relative weaknesses on rhythm
tasks beyond their characteristic linguistic impairments. The current study compares …

Topical Cellular/Tissue and Molecular Aspects Regarding Nonpharmacological Interventions in Alzheimer's Disease—A Systematic Review

S Aurelian, A Ciobanu, R Cărare, SI Stoica… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the most complex and challenging developments at the beginning of the third
millennium is the alarming increase in demographic aging, mainly—but not exclusively …

Response to commentaries by Schmidt and Kaplan, Penhune, Hickok and Theofanopoulou on “Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in …

AD Patel - BMC Neuroscience, 2024 - Springer
Each commentary on my article raises important points and new ideas for research on
rhythmic processing in humans and other species. Here I respond to points concerning the …

Heritability of childhood music engagement and associations with language and executive function: insights from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD …

DE Gustavson, S Nayak, PL Coleman, JR Iversen… - Behavior genetics, 2023 - Springer
Music engagement is a powerful, influential experience that often begins early in life. Music
engagement is moderately heritable in adults (~ 41–69%), but fewer studies have examined …

[HTML][HTML] A behavioural exploration of language aptitude and experience, cognition and more using Graph Analysis

A Rampinini, I Balboni, N Golestani, R Berthele - Brain Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Language aptitude has recently regained interest in cognitive neuroscience.
Traditional language aptitude testing included phonemic coding ability, associative memory …

Confronting ethical and social issues related to the genetics of musicality

RL Gordon, DO Martschenko, S Nayak… - Annals of the New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
New interdisciplinary research into genetic influences on musicality raises a number of
ethical and social issues for future avenues of research and public engagement. The …