Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

We tend to think of music as completely cultural—something we learn to love and understand through lullabies, radio hits, and Spotify playlists. But new research suggests that at least one part of our ...

North American adults have problems perceiving and reproducing irregular rhythms. That's what past studies have shown, and some new research has addressed the question of whether our seeming ...

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 ...