Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 119, The 14th International Society for Music Education: ISME Research Seminar (Winter, 1993/1994), pp. 170-178 (9 pages) The purpose of ...

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, the ...

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is so fundamental to humans that we recognize patterns ...

Study reveals that rats showed sensitivity to track harmonic and temporal patterns in music and such sensitivities might be shared across species Are humans the only ones who recognize musical ...