The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.

A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...

They may not yet be kings of the swingers, but macaque monkeys can keep time to music and move to the beat. Well, at least ...

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology detailing their findings about a new way our bodies naturally respond to music.

In this combination of photos provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a pant-hoot call as he joins his groupmates in the Budongo Forest of Uganda in ...

The findings suggest that, although monkeys do not experience music as fully as humans do and require substantial training, beat perception may span a broader evolutionary continuum than previously ...

Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...

HOUSTON – (Sept. 18, 2025) – The brain is famously plastic: Neurons’ ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons’ response to the same ...

In the eight or so hours I spent seeing its 1.0 version through to completion, Rhythm Doctor frustrated me, earned some ...

One of the more surprising things to come out of this week’s Nintendo Direct was the return of the Rhythm Heaven series. Rhythm Heaven Groove was announced for the Nintendo Switch in a quirky new ...