Cognition and the Evolution of Music: Pitfalls and Prospects

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 513-524

  Honing, Henkjan ^a   Ploeger, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Beat induction; Evolutionary psychology; Innateness; Music cognition; Musicality; Relative pitch

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRIVE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; CULTURE; HUMANS; INSTINCT; MUSIC; PERIODICITY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867611214     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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