For example, one level might be NecroDancer-themed with lots of skeletons and skulls, while a Suzu level later in the game is heavy on blade masters because that’s where the monster is introduced. We ...

Rhythm and meter are central elements of music. From the very beginning, children are responsive to rhythms and acquire increasingly complex rhythmic skills over the course of development. Previous ...

In daily life "rhythm" is used to refer to patterns of temporal distributions of events. More strictly in music, rhythm refers to the explicit division of time into recurrent and periodic intervals of ...

Which features of music are universal and which are culture-specific? Why? These questions are important for understanding why humans make music but have rarely been scientifically tested. We used ...

Implicit learning of sequential structures has been investigated mostly for visual, spatial, or motor learning, but rarely for temporal structure learning. The few experiments investigating temporal ...

Rhythm organises musical events into patterns and forms, and rhythm perception in music is usually studied by using metrical tasks. Metrical structure also plays an organisational function in the ...