Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and ...

Rhythm pulses inside the brain of a Ghanaian drummer, sitting in a physics laboratory in Gottingen, Germany. His hands caress the skin of a bongo drum, guided by the metronome’s tick through his ...

New Australian research shows bumblebees can learn and recognise rhythmic patterns across different tempos and even across senses. Humans are creatures of rhythms. As far as we know, humans have ...

Researchers at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, led by Wolf Singer, have made a new discovery in understanding fundamental brain processes. For the first time, the team ...

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It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A new study overturns the conventional wisdom that insects cannot perceive complex rhythms due to their small brains. Getty ...