Learning to move with the beat could boost reading skills because both abilities are partly powered by the same ability in the brain, according to a study of more than 100 finger-tapping Chicago ...

Reading makes you smarter. So we're told by teachers, parents and every sage since antiquity except Socrates -- who I suspect was drunk and wanted to start a fight. I agree with the statement in ...

Babies may be born with a sense of musical beat, a new study suggests. Jan. 27, 2009— -- All God's children got rhythm -- and at a much earlier age than doctors ever suspected, a small study ...

The first large-scale genomic study of musicality - published on the cover of today's Nature Human Behaviour - identified 69 genetic variants associated with beat synchronization, meaning the ability ...