The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis.

Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for synchronized movement to music. What are the neural mechanisms of musical beat perception, and how did they evolve? One view, which...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Main Authors:	Aniruddh D. Patel, John R. Iversen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Subjects:	Brain evolution comparative psychology music cognition Rhythm perception
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00057/full