ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2016
Beat Keeping in a Sea Lion As Coupled Oscillation: Implications for Comparative Understanding of Human Rhythm.
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- Critical Review on the Development and Evolution of Beat Perception.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) can show spontaneous vocal flexibility when exposed to dynamically changing rhythmic sounds.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Sensorimotor synchronization to rhythm in an experienced sea lion rivals that of humans.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Marmosets mutually compensate for differences in rhythms when coordinating vigilance.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Isochrony in barks of Cape fur seal (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Probing Beat Perception with Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in Human Adults, Newborns, and Nonhuman Primates.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- The relationship between entrainment dynamics and reading fluency assessed by sensorimotor perturbation.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- An ecological approach to measuring synchronization abilities across the animal kingdom.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Visual timing abilities of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) and a South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) for sub- and supra-second time intervals.Animal cognition · 2020Article
- Cerebral Substrates for Controlling Rhythmic Movements.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Rhythmic swaying induced by sound in chimpanzees (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn-taking.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Article
- Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
- Modelling Animal Interactive Rhythms in Communication.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2019Article
- Temporal Processing in Audition: Insights from Music.Neuroscience · 2018Review
- Temporal Generalization of Synchronized Saccades Beyond the Trained Range in Monkeys.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Sensorimotor Synchronization With Auditory and Visual Modalities: Behavioral and Neural Differences.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2018Review
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Abstract
Human capacity for entraining movement to external rhythms-i.e., beat keeping-is ubiquitous, but its evolutionary history and neural underpinnings remain a mystery. Recent findings of entrainment to simple and complex rhythms in non-human animals pave the way for a novel comparative approach to assess the origins and mechanisms of rhythmic behavior. The most reliable non-human beat keeper to date is a California sea lion, Ronan, who was trained to match head movements to isochronous repeating stimuli and showed spontaneous generalization of this ability to novel tempos and to the complex rhythms of music. Does Ronan's performance rely on the same neural mechanisms as human rhythmic behavior? In the current study, we presented Ronan with simple rhythmic stimuli at novel tempos. On some trials, we introduced "perturbations," altering either tempo or phase in the middle of a presentation. Ronan quickly adjusted her behavior following all perturbations, recovering her consistent phase and tempo relationships to the stimulus within a few beats. Ronan's performance was consistent with predictions of mathematical models describing coupled oscillation: a model relying solely on phase coupling strongly matched her behavior, and the model was further improved with the addition of period coupling. These findings are the clearest evidence yet for parity in human and non-human beat keeping and support the view that the human ability to perceive and move in time to rhythm may be rooted in broadly conserved neural mechanisms.
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