A recent study published in the Annals of Neurosciences suggests that practicing a specific type of sound-based meditation ...

Bumblebees can recognize rhythm even when it changes speed, revealing surprising intelligence in tiny insect brains.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Long before infants can clap their hands or bounce to a beat, they already show signs of understanding rhythm. A fresh scientific investigation demonstrates that newborns only a few days old can ...

* While clapping comes naturally to children, it is hard for them to clap a rhythm. Start with someone tapping a pulse/beat and have the children copy you clapping some simple rhythms. Rhythm ...