The so-called frantic 50s and swinging 60s are decades meaning time spans of 10 years, but when we use that term decades in engineering, we are referring to numerical values in 10-to-1 ratios. “Ten” ...

Singing experiments with residents of the Bolivian rainforest demonstrate how biology and experience shape the way we hear music. In the lowlands of Bolivia, the most isolated of the Tsimané people ...

When two notes are an octave apart, one has double the frequency of the other yet we perceive them as being the same note – a “C” for example. Why is this? Readers give their take This question has a ...

Our experience of musical intervals and the uncanny “sameness” of octaves is encoded in our neuroanatomy. The neuroscience of music is rich, complex and not without controversy. But some things are ...