Abstract: Music meter contains much of information, and can be changed in different ways; therefore music meter processing is quite a complicated work. From the content point of view, the researches of music meter in neural cognitive filed abroad can be concluded as followed; how people process the violation of meter, the change of tempo speed, different types of meter and the differences between rhythm and meter. Up to now, the researches of music meter is still at the initial stage. The neural basis of time interval, tempo change, accent pattern should be made clear in future work. Then we can move forward to develop the processing mechanism of complicated meter, individual diversity of perceptibility and so on.

Key words: meter, rhythm, music cognition, ERP, fMRI