Not everyone is Fred Astaire or Michael Jackson, but even those of us who seem to have two left feet have got rhythm--in our brains. From breathing to walking to chewing, our days are filled with ...

In February, PLOS Biology published a study that found newborns could predict rhythmic patterns of music. While they were shown to recognize rhythms, they ...

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 ...

Music and rhythm are rooted in every known culture. What parent does not use rhythmic rocking to soothe a crying baby? The repetitive sounds and silences that comprise rhythmic patterns make dancing ...

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 ...

Even before babies learn to communicate through words, their brains are actively processing sound, rhythm, and melody. From the time they are in the womb, they respond to music, heartbeat patterns, ...