By looking at the way the brain responds to rhythm, we can begin to understand why many of us can’t help but to move to a beat. Rhythm is a powerful force. It can regulate mood, ranging from the ...

emphasizing the second and fourth beats of a 4-beat rhythm creates the syncopated pattern known as a “backbeat.” Sure enough, researchers were able to observe a deflection in brain signals ...

Keeping the beat -- it takes more than just ... match between the pulsing or oscillations in the brain rhythms and the pulsing of the musical rhythm -- it's not just listening or movement.

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is ... where our brain recognises patterns ...

Even if you can't keep a beat, your brain can. "The brain absolutely has rhythm," says Nathan Urban, a neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. When you concentrate, Urban says ...

“It has been recently discovered that instead of applying the rhythm within a short space of time, [if] you have a break for a few minutes and then repeat the stimulation, the effect on synapses in ...

Rhythm may not come naturally to some people. A new study suggests those people might not be great talkers either. Scientists studied a group of high school students,and found those who were ...

to respond to rhythm. The findings, described in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, may help shed light on the origins of the brain’s ability to sync sound and movement. Other animals have ...

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