It seems like such a simple thing. The music starts and the crowd claps along in unison. Dancers move to the rhythm and synchronize their actions to the beat. Even small children seem able to detect ...
In 2009, my research group in Amsterdam, in collaboration with colleagues at the HUN-REN Research Center in Hungary, found that newborns possess the ability to discern a regular pulse — the beat — in ...
Music makes people move and groove, often in surprisingly involuntary ways. As it turns out, we even blink in time to the beat, researchers report in PLOS Biology. “Our eyes—which we usually think of ...
It seems like such a simple thing. The music starts and the crowd claps along in unison. Dancers move to the rhythm and synchronize their actions to the beat. Even small children seem able to detect ...