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 …

Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while
recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability–one dependent on …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Emotions, bodily sensations and movement are integral parts of musical experiences. Yet, it
remains unknown i) whether emotional connotations and structural features of music elicit …

Adults who move together to a shared musical beat synchronously as opposed to
asynchronously are subsequently more likely to display prosocial behaviors toward each …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Probability distributions over external states (priors) are essential to the interpretation of
sensory signals. Priors for cultural artifacts such as music and language remain largely …

Our sense that a waltz is" in three" or a blues song is" in four with a shuffle" comes from our
sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores the metric aspect of our musical …

Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and …