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 …

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 …

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 …

Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization

AD Patel - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human capacity to synchronize movements to an auditory beat is central to musical
behaviour and to debates over the evolution of human musicality. Have humans evolved …

A review of psychological and neuroscientific research on musical groove

T Etani, A Miura, S Kawase, S Fujii, PE Keller… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
When listening to music, we naturally move our bodies rhythmically to the beat, which can
be pleasurable and difficult to resist. This pleasurable sensation of wanting to move the body …

Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds

AA Rouse, AD Patel, MH Kao - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Rhythm perception is fundamental to speech and music. Humans readily recognize a
rhythmic pattern, such as that of a familiar song, independently of the tempo at which it …

The paradox of isochrony in the evolution of human rhythm

A Ravignani, G Madison - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Isochrony is crucial to the rhythm of human music. Some neural, behavioral and anatomical
traits underlying rhythm perception and production are shared with a broad range of …

[HTML][HTML] Coordinated rhythms in animal species, including humans: entrainment from bushcricket chorusing to the philharmonic orchestra

MD Greenfield, B Merker - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross‐species perspective

A Ravignani, S Dalla Bella, S Falk… - Annals of the New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Why does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how
speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to …

Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: A review and recommendations from a methodological perspective

FL Bouwer, V Nityananda… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …