News Finding: Or, put another way, our brains entrain more to low frequencies.
Paper Finding: We found that neural tracking was stronger above 1 nps than below [experiment 1, t (14) = 2.15, P < 0.05; experiment 2, t (11) = 4.2, P < 0.005].
News Context: Whatever it means artistically speaking, we can train our brains to respond more precisely to music in a measurable, biologic way. Or, put another way, our brains entrain more to low frequencies. The authors speculate that this could be why the rhythm sections of so many music styles around the world rely on bass, drums and lower tones, and why discordant guitar solos and blaring saxophone leads can sound just fine when off-beat bass guitar doesnaEUR(tm)t.
  
  Poeppel cautions that this research is in its early stages, but speculates that if in fact we are more likely to entrain to lower frequencies it could help explain another critical component of musical perception: movement.
Paper Context: The peak frequency for each stimulus type corresponded to the note rate of the stimulus except for the 0.5 nps condition, which had a peak frequency of 2 nps. We found that neural tracking was stronger above 1 nps than below [experiment 1, t (14) = 2.15, P < 0.05; experiment 2, t (11) = 4.2, P < 0.005]. These findings could suggest a lower limit of the oscillatory mechanism, in which the cortical response is constrained by the inherent temporal structure within the neural architecture.