http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- Most people don’t like things to be too perfect – and this may well apply to the music they enjoy. Since no musician plays absolutely ‘in time’, electronically generated rhythms are often “humanized”, i.e. post-processed in recording studios to make them sound more natural. In particular, every beat is randomly shifted slightly in time – a method whose justification had up to now never been scrutinized. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-musical-rhythms-noise.html Neuroscience Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:49:18 EST news239014144