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 …

4 Henkjan Honing origins. Our aspiration as editor and chapter authors is that this book will
lay a new interdisciplinary and comparative foundation for the study of musicality. The key …

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 …

Music can have powerful effects on human health and wellbeing. These findings have
inspired an emerging field of research that focuses on the potential of music for animal …

The complex and melodic nature of many birds' songs has raised interest in potential
parallels between avian vocal sequences and human speech. The similarities between …

All human societies have music with a rhythmic “beat,” typically produced with percussive
instruments such as drums. The set of capacities that allows humans to produce and …

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 …

In recent years, music and musicality have been the focus of an increasing amount of
research effort. This has led to a growing role and visibility of the contribution of (bio) …

The human capacity for speech and vocal music depends on vocal imitation. Songbirds, in
contrast to non-human primates, share this vocal production learning with humans. The …

The evolutionary origin of rhythm perception, a cognitive ability essential to musicality,
remains unresolved [1–5]. The ability to perceive and memorize rhythmic sounds is widely …