The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind

By Steven R. Livingstone, William Forde Thompson. 2009

89 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7d0ea7e8b004b1c7118a94c18c807bc2988fb078

How researchers see this paper

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In Developmental Biology

1. Aniruddh D. Patel
2. Steven R. Livingstone

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Steven R. Livingstone
2. Aniruddh D. Patel
3. Emery Schubert
4. John R. Iversen

In Social Psychology

1. Aniruddh D. Patel
2. Emery Schubert
3. Steven R. Livingstone

Citations in the corpus

• Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “Livingstone and Thompson (2009), for example, argue that music builds on a recently evolved human theory of mind ability to serve the primary purpose of affective engagement.”
• Emotional response to musical repetition. (2012, background): “Listeners’ emotional responses to music arise from several musical features, including musical mode, harmonic complexity, tempo and intensity (Livingstone & Thompson, 2009; Schubert, 2004).”