News Finding: Or, put another way, our brains entrain more to low frequencies.
Paper Finding: Still, as both types of complex sounds require the same function, broadly construed-the identification of meaningful units within a continuous sound stream-it is plausible that they perform this function using the same or a similar mechanism.
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: Given our conjecture that this entrainment mechanism is shared between speech and music, we suppose that it would. Still, as both types of complex sounds require the same function, broadly construed-the identification of meaningful units within a continuous sound stream-it is plausible that they perform this function using the same or a similar mechanism. If musical training enhances cortical entrainment to speech for example, as has been reported for auditory brainstem responses , then it may provide an explanation for findings related to music and dyslexia.