Biological principles for music and mental health

DL Bowling - Translational psychiatry, 2023‏ - nature.com
Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating
but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a …

Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization

AD Patel - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human capacity to synchronize movements to an auditory beat is central to musical
behaviour and to debates over the evolution of human musicality. Have humans evolved …

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

PE Savage, P Loui, B Tarr, A Schachner… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
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 …

Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures

CB Hilton, CJ Moser, M Bertolo, H Lee-Rubin… - Nature Human …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages

J Liu, CB Hilton, E Bergelson, SA Mehr - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish
words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …

Beyond Broca: neural architecture and evolution of a dual motor speech coordination system

G Hickok, J Venezia, A Teghipco - Brain, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Classical neural architecture models of speech production propose a single system centred
on Broca's area coordinating all the vocal articulators from lips to larynx. Modern evidence …

Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries.

DM Greenberg, SJ Wride, DA Snowden… - Journal of Personality …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Are there universal patterns in musical preferences? To address this question, we built on
theory and research in personality, cultural, and music psychology to map the terrain of …

Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

M Singh, SA Mehr - Nature reviews psychology, 2023‏ - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Origins of vocal-entangled gesture

W Pouw, S Fuchs - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

Hemispheric asymmetries for music and speech: Spectrotemporal modulations and top-down influences

RJ Zatorre - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Hemispheric asymmetries in auditory cognition have been recognized for a long time, but
their neural basis is still debated. Here I focus on specialization for processing of speech …