Reflections on the Musical Mind : An Evolutionary Perspective /
What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music i...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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Table des matières:
- Music and the brain : an evolutionary context
- Bird brains, social contact, and song
- Human song : dopamine, syntax, and morphology
- Musical expectations, probability, and aesthetics
- Musical expression, memory, and the brain
- Development, music, and social contact
- Music and dance.