Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) detect rhythmic groups in music, but not the beat.

It was recently shown that rhythmic entrainment, long considered a human-specific mechanism, can be demonstrated in a selected group of bird species, and, somewhat surprisingly, not in more closely related species such as nonhuman primates. This observation supports the vocal learning hypothesis tha...

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Main Authors: Henkjan Honing, Hugo Merchant, Gábor P Háden, Luis Prado, Ramón Bartolo
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7f75a265b973450aa0da8abc7cf55c31
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