Newborns sense the beat

Brain activity in babies listening to a drum beat suggests they are born with a keen sense of rhythm.

See http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126935.900-the-beat-goes-on-even-for-...

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• music
• cognition
• beat
• induction
• newscientist
• rhythm

[musiccognition]

All this is discussed at length in Musical Cognition | A Science of Listening

[enigmatically]

@GirlyVoice from what I was reading only humans and certain species of parrots have the ability to sync to a beat; other animals are not capable of rhythm.

[GirlyVoice]

I would hope they accounted for non-musical timing abilities that most animals have.

Parrots sync to music because their vocal circuits involve the same skill of learning precise movements in coordination with sound, which of course we humans do also!