THE ORIGINS OF MUSIC: INNATENESS, UNIQUENESS, AND EVOLUTION

By Josh H. McDermott, Marc D. Hauser. 2005

269 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Signal Processing

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Steven R. Livingstone
2. William Forde Thompson
3. Aniruddh D. Patel
4. Guy Madison
5. Thomas Schäfer
6. Peter Sedlmeier
7. Dave Miranda
8. E. G. Schellenberg

In Developmental Biology

1. Aniruddh D. Patel
2. William Forde Thompson
3. Dave Miranda
4. Steven R. Livingstone

In Signal Processing

1. Steven R. Livingstone
2. Aniruddh D. Patel
3. William Forde Thompson
4. Guy Madison
5. Dave Miranda
6. Tuomas Eerola
7. A. V. D. van den Tol
8. J. Edwards

Citations in the corpus

• From the functions of music to music preference (2009, background): “…additional factors that can influence music preference: the personality of the listener (Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003, 2006), the listener’s physiological parameters (McNamara & Ballard, 1999) and innate auditory preferences (McDermott & Hauser, 2005; Trehub, Schellenberg, & Hill, 1997; Umemoto, 1997).”
• Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution (2006, methodology): “Taking this approach, Justus and Hutsler (2005) and McDermott and Hauser (2005) suggest that musical pitch perception can be explained without invoking natural selection for music.”
• The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “Justus and Hutsler (2005) conclude that only tonal encoding of pitch may be innate (genetic) and specific to the domain of music (McDermott & Hauser, 2005; Peretz, 2006).”
• The role of music in adolescent development: much more than the same old song (2013, background): “From an evolutionary perspective, music could be an evolved psychological mechanism in as much as it seems to have been potentially adaptive for increasing our fitness for survival in terms of better mate selection, social cohesion, synchronised group effort, perceptual development, motor skill deve”
• Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins (2015, background): “Music or musicality—“a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and constrained by our cognitive system” (p. 4; Honing & Ploeger, 2012)—is a universal feature of human culture which, in most cultures, developed independently and can be traced back more than 40,000 years (based on an old bone”