The Durham-based percussionist, composer, and improviser Joe Westerlund chats with WUNC music reporter Brian Burns about his ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the human brain may organize its many cognitive functions by ...

A new study reveals that the human brain synchronizes more accurately with rhythm when listening to music than when feeling it through touch.

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the ...

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by ...

Abstract: Negative emotion recognition during manipulation task plays crucial role in human-machine interaction, where diverse cognitive variables coexist and influence each other. However, ...

Introduction and aims Circadian rest-activity rhythms describe patterns in rest and physical activity across and between 24-hour periods. Research highlights important associations between circadian ...

This paper reports a useful low-cost platform for studying mosquito behaviors such as flight activity, sugar feeding, and host-seeking responses over the course of several weeks, and demonstrates key ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, Donald Trump was short on friends. Congressional Republicans kept their distance; businesses denounced the political violence he instigated; and tech ...

To hear reparto in Havana, you don’t have to go far. It’s playing in every taxi, every café lining La Habana Vieja, on Friday nights at Don Cangrejo and Saturday mornings at Mio y Tuyo. A homemade mix ...

Abstract: To explore possible contribution of speech rhythm to foreign accent, this study conducted statistical analysis and realized automatic detection of rhythmic patterns on Mandarin Chinese, ...