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.

Getting rhythm, to paraphrase the late Johnny Cash, is not something we learn, but is "part of our biological toolkit."That's according to researchers who played Bach to dozens of babies who appeared ...

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 ...