How 'catchy' music is driven by rhythmic patterns

Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, has recently risen to global prominence, as demonstrated by the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.

What makes a song catchy? Researchers say Bad Bunny’s music offers a clue

Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, has recently risen to global prominence as demonstrated by the 2026 Super ...
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Coordination of voice, hands and feet in rhythm and beat performance

Interlimb coordination is critical to the successful performance of simple activities in everyday life and it depends on precisely timed perception–action coupling. This is particularly true in ...
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Lemurs with rhythm: These singing lemurs are one-of-a-kind

If animals could be nominated for Grammys, these lemurs could win.That's because they've got rhythm.The Indri indri, a species of lemur in Madagascar, is one of a few animal species with rhythm, ...
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Neural representation of the musical beat is facilitated but not contingent on the repetition of rhythmic patterns

Music often entails perception of periodic beats which serve as internal temporal references to coordinate movements to music. Crucially, beat perception arises even in syncopated musical rhythms, ...