News Finding: Or, put another way, our brains entrain more to low frequencies.
Paper Finding: This would appear to indicate a lower limit of 1 Hz below which entrainment is not likely without training.
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: In nonmusicians, we observed no tracking below 1 Hz (Fig. This would appear to indicate a lower limit of 1 Hz below which entrainment is not likely without training. As the noise in the signal increases at 1/f, there must be a limit below which it becomes impossible to recover any significant effects.