Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception

Nature

Volumn 535, Issue 7613, 2016, Pages 547-550

  McDermott, Josh H ^a   Schultz, Alan F ^b   Undurraga, Eduardo A ^c,d   Godoy, Ricardo A ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ESTHETICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUSIC; PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CITY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SOUND; UNITED STATES; ACOUSTICS; AMERICAN INDIAN; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEARING; PLEASURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RAIN FOREST; SINGING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BOLIVIA; CULTURE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MUSIC; PLEASURE; RAINFOREST; SINGING; SOUND; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978140738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature18635     Document Type: Article

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