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Writing a book about music preference.

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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(in the UK)
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yep, saw it on TV
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Prosociality of a type more likely to be found in the West, according to this interesting recent paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Defining collectivism as duties in relationships rather than generalized warmth improves predictive validity in 100 cultures - Nature Human Behaviour
Talhelm et al. propose responsibilism as a specific conceptualization of collectivism that emphasizes responsibilities, duties and roles in close relationships. The responsibilism scale effectively ca...
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After a week in which I sang in the chorus with Billy Corgan on Tuesday and Wednesday, then had an operation yesterday, I can confirm that earworms are easily able to survive a general anaesthetic.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
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Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hi Lee. My sister Lin Gallagher is a successful VO artist. She lives in LA and specialises in British accents. Here’s an interview with her, in case it helps womenofthenorthwest.buzzsprout.com/1810173/epis.... If you have questions for her I can put you in touch.
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Lin Gallagher:Voice Actor:Zombies, Queens, and Drunken Sheep - Women of the Northwest
Lin's webpageIMBDInstagramMagazine article (Canvas Rebel)Discover the captivating world of voiceover as we delve into the experiences and insights of Lin Gallagher. From impersonations to evil qu...
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If it ever stops, the last words could be ‘thats’, ‘these’, ‘ended’ and ‘folks’. I guess if the first Wordle word had been ‘hello’, the second one would have been too easy.
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Katariina @spooky-kat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Participate in a study about scary music! 🦇💀 📝 Anonymous online survey (20–30 min) 👥 Open to adults and adolescents over 15 years 🔤 Good English skills required 🎧 Please wear headphones! ♫ Listen to music clips, answer questions. Participate here: link.webropol.com/s/mapping-sc... #musicscience
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Mapping scary music
Survey Powered by Webropol
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi (a bit late now, sorry)
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Oh that was you!
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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nature Beats is now available #OpenAccess: a timely, cross-disciplinary volume exploring the what, how, and why of rhythmic behaviour in animals. It brings together empirical findings, new data, and theories on the evolution of musical rhythm across species.
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Nature Beats
This open access book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of rhythmic behavior across the animal kingdom.
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🌏🎶 Special Many Voices: A world music podcast episode! 🎶🌏 The Season 1 finale ends with two very special guest hosts - my own kids! They interviewed me about my own NZ/US musical culture to make me see what it's like on the other end of the microphone: youtu.be/N9IZixq1pOs
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Many Voices: A world music podcast
Dr. Patrick Savage (NZ/US English)
+ special guest hosts Maika & Kazushiintroducing Sinners and O Brother, Where Art Thou movies about Americana music*Chapters*
00:00 Introduction
01:54 #1 (sing): Misty (youtu.be/lJXLqAutql4)
05:51 (bonus traditional): I Lied To You (from "Sinners") - Miles Caton (youtu.be/S7jo5Cr6WUA)
07:15 #2 (traditional): I'll Fly Away (from "O Brother Where Art Thou") - Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss  (youtu.be/sdRdqp4N3Jw)
09:03 #3 (contemporary): Hope - Fat Freddy's Drop (youtu.be/kXvZf7TmT3k)
11:29 #4 (happy): Christmas Eve (from "The Calvin & Hobbes Suite) - Lyrics by Bill Watterson, music composed by Patrick Savage, sung by the Amherst College Zumbyes and Bluestockings (youtu.be/eOnLKQ35EkQ)
13:43 #5 (sad): It's Quiet Uptown (from "Hamilton") - Lin-Manuel Miranda (youtu.be/I5N7xCSOrQg)
15:33 (bonus dance): Naatu Naatu (from "R.R.R.") -  M.M. Keeravaani (youtu.be/4_eEgJhsBMo)
16:19 #6 (dance): Thriller - Michael Jackson (youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA)
17:18 Thriller - performed by the Amherst College Zumbyes at the Lincoln Centre in the 2007 International Championship of Collegiate A Capella (youtu.be/-7hwc6yTbjI)
19:05 Broader thoughts on music and science
23:56 (bonus kid category: video game music): Super Mario Bros. theme song - Koji Kondo (youtu.be/-avspZlbOWU)
25:15 (bonus) Mario skit by the Zumbyes: youtu.be/L1pXRC02q5o
25:50 (bonus) theme from "Hollow Knight" - Composed by Christopher Larkin, performed by Maika Savage (youtu.be/0PQBtRV7Tes | youtu.be/r6PuACnHkNY)
27:25 (bonus) Hornet (from "Hollow Knight") - Composed by Christopher Larkin, performed by Kazushi Savage (youtu.be/apHbW1oO-Vs | youtu.be/7xkM8mWC4Kk)
29:46 Post-credit scene: Between Two Mammoths (Amherst College President Michael Elliot interviews Zumbyes Business Manager Ashley Yuen Z'25) (youtu.be/VTF3AeLsCkY)Between 2 Mammoths with Ashley Yuen '25: Season 3, Episode 4
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌏🎶 New @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast episode with @andrearavignani.bsky.social covers music from his homeland, from the Italian anti-fascist anthem "Bella Ciao" to pan-European instrumental music like Bach and John Powell's "How To Train Your Dragon", and beyond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfju...
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Love this game. Am learning.
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My new favourite game is Anthropeum. anthropeum.com
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Caroline Curwen @curwen01.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Who creates meaning in music? I've reviewed Janet Bourne's new book Who Listens? A fascinating exploration of how musical meaning emerges through the experiences, identities, and cultures we bring to listening. For music cognition, narrative, & music therapy. journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/a...
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You can also listen on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/1Ie6...) or Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...) For more episodes and playlists with full songs, visit many-voices.com. Let's keep the whole world singing! 🌏🎶
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Like IQ tests, this research has a dark history." In the 16th essay for our Legacies of Eugenics series, Daniel Shanahan traces the origins of algorithmically-mediated music recommendations: lareviewofbooks.org/article/music-a…
An old photograph of a woman listening to headphones with a graphic that says "Legacies of Eugenics"
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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why Context Matters in Music and Emotions — a blog post on why emotional experiences with music cannot be explained by musical features alone, but require a contextualised understanding of the listener and situation.
This shows a middle-aged man listening to music in five different situations that exemplify the different emotional episodes that each have a different functional purpose. The labels in the image list (1) focus-motivation, (2) connection-belonging, (3) personal reflection, (4) aesthetic-interest, and (5) enjoyment-relaxation.
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I enjoyed the bit about namesakes. I can also confirm that Slade’s guitarist David Hill does not currently conduct The Bach Choir.
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I see Desmond Morris has just died.
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Tearfloods (Homage to Miyazaki). I’m looking forward to singing in this at Cadogan Hall this evening. youtu.be/0HvLtNoFuBY?...
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David Temple interviews Robin Haigh, composer of CEFC commission TEARFLOODS (Homage to Miyazaki)
YouTube video by Crouch End Festival Chorus
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Book here if you’re in the area cadoganhall.com/whats-on/cro...
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Robin Haigh: Tearfloods & Orff: Carmina Burana | Cadogan Hall
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I’m looking forward to singing in this on Sunday. Robin Haigh’s TEARFLOODS is remarkable. youtube.com/shorts/Ur4gS...
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Carmina Burana + TEARFLOODS at Cadogan Hall, don’t miss out on an epic choral Sunday
YouTube video by Crouch End Festival Chorus
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 04/03/2026
Looking for some good readings for a graduate student who is interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of music #perception. Any recommendations—philosophical or otherwise? #PhilPerception #PhilQ
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How it started / How it ended
Figure 0.2 Selfie from October 2017 at the Oxford University Press building about to meet my editor Martin Baum for the first time.It's been 84 years... [Titanic meme]
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We (@johnmcbride4lyf.bsky.social, @yutoozaki.bsky.social, @mhoeschele.bsky.social, Alex Ruf, Raphaël Powis, @musiccognition.bsky.social & I) wrote this up into a formal critique of the Science paper claiming to demonstrate beat synchronization in macaques: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Fig. S1. Direct comparison of human and macaque data from [1] show that macaques do not synchronize to a beat. Human data are copied from Fig. S4 in [1], while macaque data are copied from Fig. 1F in [1]. Dashed arrows have been superimposed to show the predicted pattern for perfect synchronization to the original stimulus (O, in red) and to the phase-shifted stimulus (π, in grey). Human data closely match the synchronized pattern, while macaque data do not.

Figure S2. Reproductions of key experimental data demonstrating beat synchronization in non-human animals. Left: Fig. 2 from [6] showing Snowball the sulphur-crested cockatoo. Right: Fig. 4 from Cook et al. (2013) showing Ronan the sea lion (subset of experiments reported in [7]).
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪
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Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music
Author summary Many people experience chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing art. Yet not everyone feels these reactions in the same way. These differences provide a window into ho...
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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Does musical tension make the final resolution sweeter? 🎵 New research says perhaps no! We found that high dissonance in the penultimate chord actually makes the final tonic sound less pleasant, debunking the long-held "contrast effect" theory. #musicscience #musicresearch doi.org/10.1177/0305...
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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
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SysMus26
We are looking forward to hosting the next International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology very soon! SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—i…
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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
📣 Happy to share our new pre-print investigating rhythmic competencies in an internet-based sample of 300 participants - Check it out here! osf.io/preprints/ps... Nice collaboration with Nick Foster, Reyna Gordon, Simone Dalla Bella, and Barbara Tillmann 😁 🎵🧪 #musicscience 🎶
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I love this.
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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? Tell us about it at www.manyparrots.org @birdsingalong.bsky.social @laurynbenedict.bsky.social et al.
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Nice new paper here providing a model of why we want to move. #musiccognition #music #research #musicscience nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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NYAS Publications
Prominent theories suggest that the urge to move along to rhythmic music is driven by precision-weighted prediction errors. We operationalized this account as a Bayesian model which outputs surprisal...
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A strange ad for Facebook to dangle in front of me.
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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
In short, I believe the study provides evidence for isochrony perception rather than beat perception. I explain the difference in [1] and present empirical data in [2]. [1] youtu.be/hZlribCZAx8?... [2] doi.org/10.3389/fnin...
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Probing beat and isochrony perception in primates | Paper at ICMPC17 | Henkjan Honing
YouTube video by Music Cognition Group (UvA)
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Pure Science @purescience.news · 29/11/2025
Monkeys That Catch The Beat Rewrite The Story Of Rhythm #Science #Biology #Zoology #RhythmResearch #AnimalBehavior #MusicScience
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Monkeys That Catch The Beat Rewrite The Story Of Rhythm
All the science news you can handle in a single feed
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SoundPower Podcast @soundpowerpodcast.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
OUT NOW!!! SoundPower with Stefan Koelsch, professor, music neuroscientist and violinist. We look at how musical pleasure shapes emotion, health and ageing. In his words “Dopamine can help keep the brain younger.” Listen here: www.tinyurl.com/ep18-SP-Stef...
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Daniel Shanahan @danielshanahan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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David Huron (1954–2025) - Daniel Shanahan, 2025
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Fleur Bouwer @fleurbouwer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Paper out with Atser Damsma, Tom Kaplan, Mohsen Ghorashi, & Marcus Pearce! How do listeners represent rhythmic patterns? Our probabilistic modelling 🎶 says using abstract, imprecise representations, like ratio and contour: "long, a bit shorter, shortish"! Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our next RITMO Seminar Series is Tuesday next week!🥳 Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will give a talk titled "Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo". Read more here: www.uio.no/ritmo/englis...
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Multimodality and Embodiment of Timing and Tempo - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Professor of Music Psychology at the University of Sheffield, Renee Timmers, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.
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Lullabyte @lullabyte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total. z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run #Musicscience
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Nashra Ahmad @nashraa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicpsych @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
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The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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Jonathan (Jaytee) Tang @jayteetang.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thrilled to share our new publication in Aesthetics, Creativity & the Arts! 🎶 Huge thanks to my wonderful collaborators for making this possible. Our paper explores how culture shapes emotions felt with favorite music and their implications for arts & health. Read it here: doi.org/10.1037/aca0...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks @psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
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Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#musicscience
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Steven A B Wright @stevenabwright.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Looks like macaques can entrain to a beat, if it’s visual. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society
The ability to synchronize bodily movements with regular auditory rhythm across a broad range of tempos underlies humans’ capacity for playing music and dancing. This capability is prevalent across hu...
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