At scientific meetings, psycho-biologist Colwyn Trevarthen often plays a video of a 5-month-old Swedish girl giving her mother a musical surprise. Blind from birth, the girl reaches for a bottle and ...

There is growing interest in the "musical sense" (musicality) of other animals. A recent essay by Liam Drew titled "What can a sea lion teach us about musicality?" published in Frontiers in ...

Ronan the sea lion can keep the beat better than any other animal; a new study found out more. Ronan the sea lion can keep the beat better than any other animal, a study published in Frontiers in ...

Not everyone has a sense of rhythm, but does the ability to clap in time with a beat really say anything about a person’s musicality overall? As part of an international research team, the Max Planck ...

There is growing interest in the "musical sense" (musicality) of other animals . A recent essay by Liam Drew titled " What can a sea lion teach us about musicality? " published in Frontiers in ...

In two separate studies, researchers have shown for the first time that rats and seals show innate beat synchronization, which may help understand human musicality. Have you ever thought that the cute ...

The first large-scale genomic study of musicality - published on the cover of today's Nature Human Behaviour - identified 69 genetic variants associated with beat synchronization, meaning the ability ...

According to a study in the international journal ‘Science,’ trained macaque monkeys can tap a surface to the beat of music. Other research has shown that dogs and cats calm down more quickly when ...