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 ...

Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says ...

Getting rhythm, to paraphrase the late Johnny Cash, is not something we learn, but is "part of our biological toolkit. " That ...

Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Newborns predict musical beats but show no response to melodies. The surprising reason rhythm dominates infant brains from ...