Francesca Barbero

Abstract Humans across cultures show an outstanding capacity to perceive, learn, and produce musical rhythms. These skills rely on mapping the infinite space of possible rhythmic sensory inputs onto a finite set of internal rhythm categories. What are the brain processes underlying rhythm categorization? We used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain activity as human participants listened to a continuum of rhythmic sequences characterized by repeating patterns of two inter-onset intervals.

Open AccessEditorial by Francesca Barbero 1 and Massimo E. Maffei 2,* 1 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina, 13-1023 Turin, Italy 2 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, Plant Physiology Unit, University of Turin, Via Quarello 15/a, 10135 Turin, Italy * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Mol. Sci.

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessReview by Francesca Barbero 1,*,†, Giuseppe Mannino 2,† and Luca Pietro Casacci 1 1 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina 13, 10123 Turin, Italy 2 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Gioacchino Quarello 15/A, 10135 Turin, Italy * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.