Long before infants can clap their hands or bounce to a beat, they already show signs of understanding rhythm. A fresh ...
Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody ...
A well-trained athlete sprinting 100 yards performs a highly stereotyped, repetitive motor pattern. Neuroscientists understand that these rhythmic motor programs, such as walking, swimming and running ...
We tend to think of music as completely cultural—something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and Spotify playlists. But new research suggests that at least one part of our ...
Juggling may sound like mere entertainment, but a study led by Johns Hopkins engineers has used this circus skill to gather critical clues about how vision and the sense of touch help control the way ...
One hundred years ago, neuroscientists watched children and cats walking, jumping and running, and realized that these and other rhythmic movements require the orderly and progressive activation of ...