SE Trehub - Nature neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
The study of musical abilities and activities in infancy has the potential to shed light on musical biases or dispositions that are rooted in nature rather than nurture. The available …
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …
Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget. Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …
In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …
Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …
Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …
Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D) are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …
EE Hannon, SE Trehub - Psychological science, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Intrinsic perceptual biases for simple duration ratios are thought to constrain the organization of rhythmic patterns in music. We tested that hypothesis by exposing listeners …
SE Trehub - Annals of the New York academy of sciences, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Some scholars consider music to exemplify the classic criteria for a complex human adaptation, including universality, orderly development, and special‐purpose cortical …