The evolution of rhythm processing

SA Kotz, A Ravignani, WT Fitch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Behavioral and brain rhythms in the millisecond-to-second range are central in human
music, speech, and movement. A comparative approach can further our understanding of …

How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning

CM Conway - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis

AD Patel, JR Iversen - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that
structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for …

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 …

How beat perception co-opts motor neurophysiology

JJ Cannon, AD Patel - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition
and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the …

The psychology of music: Rhythm and movement

DJ Levitin, JA Grahn, J London - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Neural networks for beat perception in musical rhythm

EW Large, JA Herrera, MJ Velasco - Frontiers in systems …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Entrainment of cortical rhythms to acoustic rhythms has been hypothesized to be the neural
correlate of pulse and meter perception in music. Dynamic attending theory first proposed …

Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: theory, method, and model

M Clayton, K Jakubowski, T Eerola… - Music Perception: An …, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

Dynamic models for musical rhythm perception and coordination

EW Large, I Roman, JC Kim, J Cannon… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Rhythmicity permeates large parts of human experience. Humans generate various motor
and brain rhythms spanning a range of frequencies. We also experience and synchronize to …

Brain mechanisms of acoustic communication in humans and nonhuman primates: an evolutionary perspective

H Ackermann, SR Hage, W Ziegler - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …