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 ...

Humans are creatures of rhythms. As far as we know, humans have always sung and always danced. We can recognize a song by its ...

Recent research reveals that bumblebees can recognize and learn abstract rhythms, akin to humans. Traditionally believed to be unique to advanced brains, this study demonstrates bees' ability to ...

Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

Rhythm in music is about timing — when notes start and stop. And now scientists say they've found a curious pattern that's common to musical rhythm. It's a pattern also found in nature. Let's consider ...

In search of an original voice, the dominant composers of the mid-twentieth century — Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez and their disciples — rejected the tonal and rhythmic forms of the past. They ...

A chimpanzee used floorboards to create rhythmic patterns and sounds, showing how emotion and rhythm may connect in early ...

Andrew J. Milne is affiliated with Dynamic Tonality, a loosely organised collective of researchers and fellow travellers who host a website and build software for facilitating interaction with ...