News Finding: Or, put another way, our brains entrain more to low frequencies.
Paper Finding: 5B shows the R 2 values demonstrating that phase coherence at the note rate and neighboring frequencies correlate with years of musical 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: Further analysis confirms the robust relationship between musical expertise and entrainment: a linear correlation is tested between ITC, averaged across time in each condition, and the number of years of musical training of each musician. 5B shows the R 2 values demonstrating that phase coherence at the note rate and neighboring frequencies correlate with years of musical training. The corresponding scatter plots (Fig.