Not everyone is Fred Astaire or Michael Jackson, but even those of us who seem to have two left feet have got rhythm--in our brains. From breathing to walking to chewing, our days are filled with ...

In February, PLOS Biology published a study that found newborns could predict rhythmic patterns of music. While they were shown to recognize rhythms, they ...

Since the time of Pythagoras around 500 BCE, music and mathematics have had an intimate and mutually supportive relationship. Mathematics has been used to tune musical scales, to design musical ...

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 ...

Even before babies learn to communicate through words, their brains are actively processing sound, rhythm, and melody. From the time they are in the womb, they respond to music, heartbeat patterns, ...