In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies—one focused on ...

Rhythm is a central component of music. Rhythm refers to the absolute timing of individual notes or sounds. The ability to perceive and produce rhythm enables people to make music. Research has shown ...

People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes organized in octaves, can usually perceive the similarity between notes that are same but played in ...

In a study published Nov. 21 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers have uncovered significant genetic connections between human language abilities and musical rhythm skills, providing new ...

Listening to music or engaging actively in music by singing or playing an instrument, is an important part of life for many. Twin research on music-related behavior shows that there is a substantial ...

Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, has recently risen to global prominence, as demonstrated by the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.

Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better at recognizing patterns in speech—an important skill for learning language. Contrary to popular opinion, ...

Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 ...