ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Humans show an outstanding capacity to perceive and move to musical rhythms. These skills rely on mapping the sheer diversity of external rhythms onto a set of internal rhythm categories. However, the brain bases of rhythm categorization remain largely unknown. One view is that the underlying mechanisms are anchored in the evolutionarily oldest subcortical parts of the brain. This view is intuitive, given the universality of some musical rhythms (based on a grid of equal time intervals and their grouping in twos) and increasing evidence for the abilities to process such rhythms in non-human species. However, recent large-scale behavioral and modelling research have highlighted the vast…
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