Interactive vocal rhythms Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How do two or more individuals coordinate their vocal communication in time? Interactive vocal rhythms are key in many aspects of our life: language, music, dance, religion, etc. To understand them, several unrelated fields have studied what is shared among languages, with non-human species, or computer-simulated interactive behavior. Mysteriously, these precise rhythms are partly absent in other apes, our closest relatives, but present in a few ...