Preference for consonant music over dissonant music by an infant chimpanzee

Primates

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-12

  Sugimoto, Tasuku ^a   Kobayashi, Hiromi ^a   Nobuyoshi, Noritomo ^b   Kiriyama, Yasushi ^b   Takeshita, Hideko ^c   Nakamura, Tomoyasu ^a   Hashiya, Kazuhide ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Itozu no Mori Park   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Consonance; Dissonance; Infant; Music

Indexed keywords

MUSIC; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUSIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSIC; PAN TROGLODYTES;

AVES; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 77949775600     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-009-0160-3     Document Type: Article

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