Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with ...

"This result suggests that experiencing a rhythmic pattern in music may improve the ability to detect and make predictions, a cognitive skill important to speech processing as well," Zhao said ...

For example, the rhythmic coordination of hand clapping in an audience, or foot-tapping to the beat of a song, is a very common experience (Thaut, 2015).

2. Rhythmic entrainment Rhythmic entrainment refers to the way the listener moves in synchrony to the beat (for example, dancing, marching, or foot tapping).

Analysis of 371 drumming bouts by chimpanzees demonstrates a clear rhythmic pattern in their tree-trunk percussion, according to University of Amsterdam music cognition researcher Henkjan Honing.

Researchers have now shown, using a music task, that this is linked to a broader difficulty in perceiving rhythmic patterns, or metrical structure.