Our Ability To Perceive Musical Beat Becomes More Refined Through Childhood

If you were to play your favourite song right now, I imagine you’d have little difficulty clapping along with the beat. Our appreciation of beat allows us to clap, dance, march and sway in time with a piece of music — or just with each other. As the authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General point out, these behaviours occur spontaneously across human cultures. But while moving to a beat seems effortless, it involves all kinds of perceptual processes.
Read more: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/09/18/our-ability-to-perceive-musical-beat-becomes-more-refined-through-childhood/?source=Snapzu