Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

The purpose of this study was to examine effects of rhythmic and melodic alterations on rhythmic perception. A 30-item Rhythmic Dissimilarities Evaluation was administered to undergraduate and ...

“Future research will help clarify whether long-term music practice can strengthen the brain’s ability to process rhythm ...

Andrew J. Milne is affiliated with Dynamic Tonality, a loosely organised collective of researchers and fellow travellers who host a website and build software for facilitating interaction with ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

A new study reveals that the human brain synchronizes more accurately with rhythm when listening to music than when feeling it through touch.