By Joel N. Shurkin | February 26, 2014 |

Can Animals Keep A Beat?

https://www.insidescience.org/content/can-animals-keep-beat/1572

By Bethany Brookshire | February 16, 2014 |

From a cockatoo bopping to the Backstreet Boys to a sea lion doing the boogie, nothing goes viral like an animal swaying to the music. Now, research shows that not only can bonobos feel the beat, they can play along.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bonobos-feel-beat

LIFE | 16 February 2014 |

Dogs may bark to music and chimps may bang on drums, but creatures that can truly keep a beat are rare, raising intriguing questions about the evolution of the human brain.

http://www.enca.com/life/bonobo-keeps-beat

By Dr.Dolittle  | February 17, 2014 |

Researchers have observed that bonobos are innately able to match a beat that was created by the research team.

 

By Dennis Lynch | February 17, 2014 |

Bonobo apes are closely related to the chimpanzee and share 98.4 percent of their genetic makeup with humans.

http://www.ibtimes.com/researchers-say-bonobos-have-innate-ability-keep-musical-beat-1556190

By Megan Phelan | February 16, 2014 |

Cockatoos and sea lions can dance, bonobos can drum, and scientists are investigating the evolutionary story behind the animals’ sense of rhythm.

http://www.aaas.org/news/animals-can-bop-along-beat

By Pam Bullock | June 6, 2011 |

In the middle of a World Science Festival panel on Saturday night, the guitarist Pat Metheny took a sudden U-turn from the program he had planned. Instead of performing one of his innovative compositions, plucked from any of the phases of his career as a style-shifting jazz omnivore, Mr. Metheny, performing with the bassist Larry Grenadier, decided on the spot to play a jazz standard.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/science/06wsfmusic.html?_r=1&ref=science

by Kate Melville | 20 December 2010 |

Using fMRI neuroimaging, Florida Atlantic University scientists have identified key aspects of musical performance that cause emotion-related brain activity, and they have shown, for the first time, how these performance nuances work in the brain, in real-time.

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20101119221308data_trunc_sys.shtml

Source: Florida Atlantic University (FAU) | December 10, 2010 |

Findings identify key aspects of musical performance that evoke emotion-related brain activity, and show how performance nuances affect the brain in real-time

http://www.fau.edu/mediarelations/Releases1210/121015.php