Rhythmic entrainment

Rhythmic Entrainment in music therapy is a specialized practice used to assist in helping people become more “in tune” to their own rhythm and the rhythms of the world around them. ... Most of us are born with the ability to sense rhythm and even move our bodies to match that rhythm.

1. What is entrainment in music listening?
2. What is entrainment theory?
3. What is entrainment in neurology?
4. What animals have entrainment?

What is entrainment in music listening?

'Entrainment' is the coordination or synchronisation of different rhythms. ... 'Interpersonal musical entrainment' is what happens when people get together for activities involving music (concerts, dances, religious rituals, even sporting events…), and synchronise what they are doing.

What is entrainment theory?

Entrainment theory describes the process of interaction between independent rhythmical processes. This paper defines entrainment in this general sense, then briefly explores its significance for human behaviour, and for music- making in particular.

What is entrainment in neurology?

Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as brainwave synchronization and neural entrainment, refers to the hypothesized capacity of the brain to naturally synchronize its brainwave frequencies with the rhythm of periodic external stimuli, most commonly auditory, visual, or tactile.

What animals have entrainment?

However, subsequent research has shown entrainment in various species of parrots (Hasegawa, Okanoya, Hasegawa, & Seki, 2011; Patel, Iversen, Bregman, & Schulz, 2009a; Schachner, Brady, Pepperberg, & Hauser, 2009), lending support to suggestions that vocal learners—humans, parrots, and perhaps a few other species, such ...