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 ...

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...

Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

Music may help babies learn language better, in part by helping them learn to detect important rhythms, researchers reported Monday. The study adds another twist to efforts to decipher why music seems ...

Rhythmic drum patterns with a balance of rhythmic predictability and complexity may influence our desire to dance and enjoy the music. Many people find themselves unable to resist moving their bodies ...

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Music is intimately associated with experiences of emotions. Rhythmic entrainment is a possible mechanism of emotion that can be evoked by music. Rhythmic entrainment also binds individuals together ...