Mila Bertolo

3 weeks ago | biorxiv.org | Mila Bertolo |Michael Weiss |Isabelle Peretz |Jon Sakata

AbstractIsochrony - as in the regular beat of a metronome - is cross-culturally ubiquitous in music. Is this ubiquity due to a widespread biological inclination for acoustic communication having isochronous structure? If so, it should be present in lesser-studied vocal music, in the absence of musical training, and in comparable non-human species' vocalizations. We quantified isochrony in an untrained expression of musicality: improvised songs from non-musician adults and children.