This meta-analytic study examined the validity of Gordon’s music aptitude tests as predictors of other musical variables. The four tests analyzed were the Music Aptitude Profile (1965), Primary ...

Investigate how humans worldwide share fundamental rhythmic preferences in music, influenced by diverse cultural backgrounds.

A study of healthy older adults in Switzerland and Germany found that they were able to acquire various musical skills over the course of one year of practice. This finding suggests that musical ...

Even rats can keep a beat. Scientists have discovered that rats are able to perceive the beat of music and bop their heads along to the rhythm – an attribute previously thought to exist only in humans ...