ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective.
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- The Emergence of a Universal Rhythmic Feature: Simple Models Can Produce Categorical Rhythms.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) can show spontaneous vocal flexibility when exposed to dynamically changing rhythmic sounds.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Computational modeling of rhythmic expectations: Perspectives, pitfalls, and prospects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Review
- Tempo-dependent selective enhancement of neural responses at the beat frequency can be mimicked by both an oscillator and an evoked model.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Revealing rhythm categorization in human brain activity.Science advances · 2025Article
- Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
- Marmosets mutually compensate for differences in rhythms when coordinating vigilance.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Sex differences in vocal learning ability in songbirds are linked with differences in flexible rhythm pattern perception.Animal behaviour · 2023Article
- Isochrony and rhythmic interaction in ape duetting.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Studying rhythm processing in speech through the lens of auditory-motor synchronization.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- You got rhythm, or more: The multidimensionality of rhythmic abilities.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- The relation between rhythm processing and cognitive abilities during child development: The role of prediction.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- 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
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Abstract
Rhythmic behaviour is ubiquitous in both human and non-human animals, but it is unclear whether the cognitive mechanisms underlying the specific rhythmic behaviours observed in different species are related. Laboratory experiments combined with highly controlled stimuli and tasks can be very effective in probing the cognitive architecture underlying rhythmic abilities. Rhythmic abilities have been examined in the laboratory with explicit and implicit perception tasks, and with production tasks, such as sensorimotor synchronization, with stimuli ranging from isochronous sequences of artificial sounds to human music. Here, we provide an overview of experimental findings on rhythmic abilities in human and non-human animals, while critically considering the wide variety of paradigms used. We identify several gaps in what is known about rhythmic abilities. Many bird species have been tested on rhythm perception, but research on rhythm production abilities in the same birds is lacking. By contrast, research in mammals has primarily focused on rhythm production rather than perception. Many experiments also do not differentiate between possible components of rhythmic abilities, such as processing of single temporal intervals, rhythmic patterns, a regular beat or hierarchical metrical structures. For future research, we suggest a careful choice of paradigm to aid cross-species comparisons, and a critical consideration of the multifaceted abilities that underlie rhythmic behaviour. This article is part of the theme issue 'Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology'.
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