2015
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0091
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Four principles of bio-musicology

Abstract: As a species-typical trait of Homo sapiens, musicality represents a cognitively complex and biologically grounded capacity worthy of intensive empirical investigation. Four principles are suggested here as prerequisites for a successful future discipline of bio-musicology. These involve adopting: (i) a multicomponent approach which recognizes that musicality is built upon a suite of interconnected capacities, of which none is primary; (ii) a pluralistic Tinbergian perspective that addresses and places equal we… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

4
110
0
5

Year Published

2015
2015
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
5
4
1

Relationship

0
10

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 114 publications
(119 citation statements)
references
References 119 publications
(153 reference statements)
4
110
0
5
Order By: Relevance
“…Although synchronized rhythms based on isochronous beats were long thought to be uniquely human, recent research has discovered that innate neural mechanisms underlying rhythmic entrainment (the ability to synchronize to a beat) seem to have evolved convergently in humans and several vocal-learning lineages of birds and mammals, but not in nonhuman primates (16,46). However, communicative signaling using instruments (e.g., African great ape drumming) and semantically meaningful vocalizations (e.g., vervet monkey alarm calls) are found in nonhuman primates but are rare or absent in birds (9,47). Thus, although multiple features of human music have parallels in other species, it is the combination of these features as a package that seems unique to humans.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although synchronized rhythms based on isochronous beats were long thought to be uniquely human, recent research has discovered that innate neural mechanisms underlying rhythmic entrainment (the ability to synchronize to a beat) seem to have evolved convergently in humans and several vocal-learning lineages of birds and mammals, but not in nonhuman primates (16,46). However, communicative signaling using instruments (e.g., African great ape drumming) and semantically meaningful vocalizations (e.g., vervet monkey alarm calls) are found in nonhuman primates but are rare or absent in birds (9,47). Thus, although multiple features of human music have parallels in other species, it is the combination of these features as a package that seems unique to humans.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, we have few clues available to resolve if human music is truly novel or merely an evolutionary continuation of the song-like calls of non-human primates such as those of the lesser apes. Alternatively, researchers can leverage statistical tools to investigate ultimate evolutionary function and mechanism by using behavioral data among living organisms [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Instead, the evolution of human behavior and neurobiology requires a more indirect scientific method. This is why understanding the cognitive neuroscience of rhythm and its evolution calls for a tight integration of different perspectives (Fitch, 2015b;Honing et al, 2015;Ravignani, 2017a). In particular, complementary approaches include but are not limited to:…”
Section: Rhythm: a Multidisciplinary Fieldmentioning
confidence: 99%