Saturday, 19 September 2020

Our Ability To Perceive Musical Beat Becomes More Refined Through Childhood

Our Ability To Perceive Musical Beat Becomes More Refined Through Childhood

If you were to play your favourite song right now, I imagine you’d have little difficulty clapping along with the beat. Our appreciation of beat allows us to clap, dance, march and sway in time with a piece of music — or just with each other. As the authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General point out, these behaviours occur spontaneously across human cultures. But while moving to a beat seems effortless, it involves all kinds of perceptual processes.

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