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Are Consonant Intervals Music to Their Ears?: Spontaneous Acoustic Preferences in a Nonhuman Primate
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Direct linkMcDermott, Josh; Hauser, Marc – Cognition, 2004
Humans find some sounds more pleasing than others; such preferences may underlie our enjoyment of music. To gain insight into the evolutionary origins of these preferences, we explored whether they are present in other animals. We designed a novel method to measure the spontaneous sound preferences of cotton-top tamarins, a species that has been…
Descriptors: Intervals, Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Primatology
Tincoff, Ruth; Hauser, Marc; Tsao, Fritz; Spaepen, Geertrui; Ramus, Franck; Mehler, Jacques – Developmental Science, 2005
Human newborns discriminate languages from different rhythmic classes, fail to discriminate languages from the same rhythmic class, and fail to discriminate languages when the utterances are played backwards. Recent evidence showing that cotton-top tamarins discriminate Dutch from Japanese, but not when utterances are played backwards, is…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Neonates, Primatology, Indo European Languages
