Scientists noticed that western chimpanzees appear to drum more quickly. Their eastern relatives tend to insert short and ...

Music influences the brain by creating neural resonance, impacting emotions, learning, and physical responses.

These synchronization patterns occur at different speeds in the brain. For rhythm (like drumbeats), slower brain waves lock ...

A 2022 study from the same research team showed that chimpanzees can drum on the buttress roots of trees. Drumming on these ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication ...

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our common ancestor ...

Previous research has shown that chimps have their own signature drumming style. A new analysis of 371 bouts of chimpanzee ...

The findings lend new weight to the theory that the essentials of music were present before our ... Scientists believe these rhythmic signals help transmit information across both short and ...

The study of rhythmic structures, which appears in the journal Current Biology, analyzed the drumming patterns of chimps ... says rhythm isn't just for music and dance. "It's present in the ...

Analysis of 371 drumming bouts by chimpanzees demonstrates a clear rhythmic pattern in their tree-trunk percussion, according to University of Amsterdam music cognition researcher Henkjan Honing.