Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an
external rhythm, ranging from finger tapping in time with a metronome to musical ensemble …

Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing
neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development …

Inspired by a theory of embodied music cognition, we investigate whether music can entrain
the speed of beat synchronized walking. If human walking is in synchrony with the beat and …

Background Recent data suggest that musical practice prevents age-related cognitive
decline. But experimental evidence remains sparse and no concise information on the …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show for the first time that levels of
musical expertise stepwise modulate higher order brain functioning. This suggests that …

We investigated whether the differences in perceptual awareness for stimuli at the threshold
of awareness can arise from different global brain states before stimulus onset indexed by …

Our brains extract structure from the environment and form predictions given past
experience. Predictive circuits have been identified in wide-spread cortical regions …

The ability to recognize metric accents is fundamental in both music and language
perception. It has been suggested that music listeners prefer rhythms that follow simple …

Touch plays a crucial role for humans. Despite its centrality in sensory experiences, the field
of haptic aesthetics is underexplored. So far, existing research has revealed that …

Background The prevalence of dementia, the most expensive medical condition
(Kirschstein, 2000 and Hurd et al., 2013 [1, 2]), and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment …