Are consonant intervals music to their ears? Spontaneous acoustic preferences in a nonhuman primate

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  McDermott, Josh ^a   Hauser, Marc ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic; Consonance; Evolution; Music; Preference; Primate; Tamarin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PHONETICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAGUINUS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 9944254595     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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