In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies—one focused on ...

Musicality may have emerged in a common ancestor of chimps and humans, as both species share similarities in how they drum. Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, UK, and her colleagues ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found genetic links to the ability to move in time to musical rhythm. A new study led by Vanderbilt Genetics Institute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better at recognizing patterns in speech—an ...

What are the origins of musical rhythm? Are humans the only mammals that have rhythm? Researchers have studied indris, the 'singing primates' from Madagascar to learn more. Indri songs recorded in the ...