Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and cultural …

To shed light on how humans can learn to understand music, we need to discover what the
perceptual capabilities with which infants are born. Beat induction, the detection of a regular …

Beat induction (BI) is the cognitive skill that allows us to hear a regular pulse in music to which
we can then synchronize. Perceiving this regularity in music allows us to dance and make …

Two experiments on categorical rhythm perception are reported, the object of which was to
investigate how listeners perceive discrete rhythmic categories while listening to rhythms …

We propose a decomposition of the neurocognitive mechanisms that might underlie interval-based
timing and rhythmic entrainment. Next to reviewing the concepts central to the …

Background: Research on the effects of music education on cognitive abilities has generated
increasing interest across the scientific community. Nonetheless, longitudinal studies …

Musical time can be considered to be the product of two time scales: the discrete time intervals
of a metrical structure and the continuous time scales of tempo changes and expressive …

We formulate tempo tracking in a Bayesian framework where a tempo tracker is modeled as
a stochastic dynamical system. The tempo is modeled as a hidden state variable of the …

It was recently shown that rhythmic entrainment, long considered a human-specific mechanism,
can be demonstrated in a selected group of bird species, and, somewhat surprisingly, …