Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1664, 2015, Pages

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Merchant, Hugo ^b   Kikuchi, Yukiko ^c   Hattori, Yuko ^d   ten Cate, Carel ^e,f  

^a Department of Cognitive Biology ^*  (Austria)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal models; Comparative studies; Evolution of music; Music perception; Musicality

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LITERATURE REVIEW; MUSIC; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; AUDITORY CUE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MUSIC; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MUSIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922117432     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0094     Document Type: Review

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