Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Genomic imprinting refers to the parent-of-origin expression of genes, which originates from
epigenetic events in the mammalian germ line. The evolution of imprinting may reflect a …

INTRODUCTION Music is often assumed to be a human universal, emerging from an
evolutionary adaptation specific to music and/or a by-product of adaptations for affect …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to
support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal …

Humans use music for a variety of social functions: we sing to accompany dance, to soothe
babies, to heal illness, to communicate love, and so on. Across animal taxa, vocalization …

Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches,
yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western …

Abstract Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains
debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially for structure …