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Monkeys that keep the beat: A new twist in musical evolution

The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.
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These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys. Can They Teach Researchers About the Origins of Human Musicality?

With a bit of training, monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of music. The findings, published November 27 in the ...

Monkeys have rhythm and can tap along to the beat (with a little help from the Backstreet Boys)

They may not yet be kings of the swingers, but macaque monkeys can keep time to music and move to the beat. Well, at least ...
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Macaque monkeys can learn to associate pictures with sounds and words, even when the words are then spoken by new individuals, showing impressive abilities to learn cross-modal ...

In the experiment, monkeys engage with auditory stimuli—ranging from simple sounds to spoken words—by identifying and selecting the corresponding visual image on a touchscreen. During one trial, a ...

Researchers have learned about the sense of rhythm in macaques

Macaques can feel the rhythm of music and move to the beat. The researchers trained them to beat the rhythm to different ...