The Evolution of Rhythm Cognition: Timing in Music and Speech

• Main Author: Henkjan Honing (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea Ravignani (auth), Sonja A. Kotz (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; music; evolution of speech and language; speech; meter; interval timing; evolution of cognition; beat perception; rhythm; time perception; synchrony; movement
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Human speech and music share a number of similarities and differences. One of the closest similarities is their temporal nature as both (i) develop over time, (ii) form sequences of temporal intervals, possibly differing in duration and acoustical marking by different spectral properties, which are...