TL;DR
The study was published in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences and confirmed the GAE hypothesis, which posits that neural networks allow for beat perception in humans, a result of strong bidirectional connections between the auditory cortex and the motor cortex.
Findings from phylogeny and ontogeny suggest that beat perception reflects an early‐emerging, biologically prepared capacity that is further shaped by experience.
Thousands of languages are currently used around the world, and while they have many commonalities, they also vary greatly at every level of structure. This review examines how the human brain underpins these crosslinguistic similarities and differences, considering evidence from both native speakers of particular lang...
Music and language share many similarities, yet music does not elicit a response in the language brain areas in adults with typical amounts of music experience, and patients with aphasia show preserved music ability. However, this dissociation might not generalize across development or expertise: it may not yet be pres...
Language and fire are hallmarks of the human condition, but most scholars treat them as independent traits. We develop a theory for the origin of language that links both touchstones of human evolution. First, we show that precursors to language were probably rooted in the gestural systems of living apes. Next, we show...
At the level of smaller linguistic units, such as words and syllables, rhythm is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity between languages. This suggests that it is distinct from nonhuman animal communication, where underlying isochrony is often observed. In this study, we examine speech rhythm using units simi...
Since the early 1990s, mismatch negativity (MMN) has been widely used to investigate sensory memory traces and predictive processing of musically relevant acoustic features, including timber, relational pitch, and rhythm. Evidence consistently demonstrates that the human brain possesses innate musical abilities, which...
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