What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024)
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Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
Measuring rhythm priors in 39 participant groups from 15 countries, the authors find that properties of rhythm representations are common across cultures, while variation from place to place related to local musical traditions exists.