“…This adaptive process allows a perceiver to abstract the beat from, and synchronize with, various signals including isochronous (evenly-spaced) metronomes, tempo-varying metronomes (Large, Fink, & Kelso, 2002 ), simple and complex rhythms (Nozaradan, Peretz, & Mouraux, 2012 ), dynamic speech (Schultz et al, 2016) and rich musical sequences (Large, 2000 ). Moreover, there is evidence that humans spontaneously move to the beat of music and in synchrony with others, suggesting that synchronizing with music and with co-performers may play a role in social cohesion (Bolt, Poncelet, Schultz, & Loehr, 2016 ; Demos, Chaffin, Begosh, Daniels, & Marsh, 2012 ; Hove & Risen, 2009 ; Janata, Tomic, & Haberman, 2012 ; Stupacher, Maes, Witte, & Wood, 2017 ). This phenomenon is called spontaneous synchronization and can occur either intentionally (e.g., Bolt et al, 2016 ) or unintentionally (e.g., Demos et al, 2012 ).…”