ABSTRACT
Rhythm permeates human experience, such as in listening, performing or dancing to music, in speech communication, or in many other common activities such as walking, running, playing a game of tennis, etc. Although it is easy to agree that many human activities elicit a sense of rhythm, both in the perceiver and the performer, the functional role of rhythm in cognition is less clear. This symposium provides an open forum for psychologists, computer scientists, linguists, philosophers, and neuroscientists to present and discuss research that specifically targets the role of rhythm in cognition. A central question concerns to what extent it is necessary to include rhythm as part of a theory of cognition.
