Musical emotions: Functions, origins, evolution

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-27

  Perlovsky, Leonid ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance; Culture; Emotions; Evolution; Knowledge instinct; Language; Mathematical models; Mind; Music; Neural mechanisms

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY PATH; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HUMAN MIND; MUSICAL EMOTION; NEURAL MECHANISMS; NEURO-IMAGING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REFINING; SEMANTICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 77349103874     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2009.11.001     Document Type: Review

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