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Many connectionist approaches to musical expectancy and music composition let the question of ``Whatnext?'' overshadow the equally important question of ``When next?''. One cannot escape the latter question, one oftemporal structure, when considering the perception of musical meter. We view the perception of metrical structure asa dynamic process where the temporal organization of external musical events synchronizes, or entrains, a listener'sinternal processing mechanisms. This article introduces a novel connectionist unit, based upon a mathematical model ofentrainment, capable of phaseand frequency-locking to periodic components of incoming rhythmic patterns.Networks of these units can self-organize temporally structured responses to rhythmic patterns. The resulting networkbehavior embodies the perception of metrical structure. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications ofour approach for theories of metrical structure and musical expectancy. Connection Science, 6 (1), 177 208.RESONANCE AND THE PERCEPTION OF MUSICAL METER 1 (Find Similar Items) Citations made by this document: Apel, W. (1972) Harvard dictionary of music (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.(Details) Allen, P. E. & Dannenberg, R. B. (1989) Tracking musical beats in real time. In Proceedings of the 1990 InternationalComputer Music Conference. Computer Music Association. (Details) Beek, P. J., Peper, C. E. & van Wieringen, P. C. W. (1992) Frequency locking, frequency modulation, andbifurcations in dynamic movement systems. In G.E. Stelmach and J. Requin (Eds.) Tutorials in motor behavior II.Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (Details) Bharucha, J. J. & Todd, P. M. (1989) Modeling the perception of tonal structure with neural nets. Computer MusicJournal, 13, 44-53. (Details) Bodenhausen, U. &Waibel;, A. (1991) The Tempo 2 algorithm: Adjusting time delays by supervised learning. In R. P.Lippmann, J. Moody, & D. S. Touretsky (Eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3. San Mateo,CA: Morgan Kaufman. Bolton, T. (Details) Carpenter, G. A. & Grossberg, S. (1983) A neural theory of circadian rhythms: The gated pacemaker. BiologicalCybernetics, 48, 35-59. (Details) [...section deleted...]