A researcher in Israel conducted the first study of hand-clapping songs, revealing a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, ...

Please put your hands together and give a round of applause for the cheapest and most widely used rhythmic device in music What is it? To paraphrase an ancient proverb, it is the sound of two hands ...

WERTHEIMER: But what makes us clap more for some performances than others? You'd think it's obvious: the better the show, the more applause. Think again. New research at Uppsala University in Sweden ...