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

Researchers prove humans are "musical animals" with a biological blueprint for rhythm and pitch that exists from birth.

Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

One of the most common human responses to music is to move to it. Our bodies respond to music in conscious and unconscious ways. The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Listeners react to ...

A new study looks at differences between the brains of Japanese classical musicians, Western classical musicians and nonmusicians. Researchers investigated specific kinds of neural behavior in ...

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 ...