Rhythms may play a vital role in both speech and music where beat tapping and rhythm memory/sequencing form two separate clusters of rhythm skills.
Commonalities Seen in Music Around the World Allow People to Coordinate Their Actions
The main function of music is to bring people together and bond social groups, it can be a kind of social glue which encourages group bonding.
The main function of music is to bring people together and bond social groups, it can be a kind of social glue which encourages group bonding.
The researchers found that tapping to a metronome - a device that produces regular, metrical ticks - and the ability to adjust to a changing tempo while tapping to a metronome seem to be related skills. The ability to remember rhythms and to drum along to repeating rhythmic sequences may also be related.
However, the authors found no relationship between beat tapping skills and rhythm memory skills and they suggest that these may actually be separate skills. The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
High School Music Training Sharpens Hearing and Language Skills in Teenagers
Although learning to play music does not teach skills that are relevant to most careers, the results suggest that music may engender learning to learn.
Although learning to play music does not teach skills that are relevant to most careers, the results suggest that music may engender learning to learn.
Stammering: a Rhythm Perception Deficiency in Children Halting Speech Patterns
Researchers have for the first time found that children who stammer have difficulty perceiving a beat in music-like rhythms which could account for their halting speech patterns.
Researchers have for the first time found that children who stammer have difficulty perceiving a beat in music-like rhythms which could account for their halting speech patterns.
University of Oxford Study Reveals Why Artists, Musicians, Actors Tend to be Middle Class
People taking part in arts, play music, paint and act are more likely to be middle class simply because they were more likely to be highly educated.
People taking part in arts, play music, paint and act are more likely to be middle class simply because they were more likely to be highly educated.
