Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have
compared similarities and differences between song, speech, and instrumental music on a …

Signatures of speech and song: “Universal” links despite cultural diversity | Science Advances
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More than a century ago, Darwin proposed a putative role for music in sexual attraction (ie,
sex appeal), a hypothesis that has recently gained traction in the field of music psychology …

It is well established that adults can interpret emotional speech prosody independent of
word meaning comprehension, even for emotional speech prosody in an unfamiliar …

Two separate lines of research have examined the influence of song and infant-directed
speech (IDS—a speech register that includes some melodic features) on language learning …

An increasing number of people (eg, polyglots) report studying foreign languages out of
pure pleasure derived from sound or melody. The Romance languages, particularly French …

To understand why music is structured the way it is, we need an explanation that accounts
for both the universality and variability found in musical traditions. Here we test whether …

Perceived vocal attractiveness and measured sex-dimorphic vocal parameters are both
associated with underlying individual qualities. Research tends to focus on speech but …

The code paradigm in biological and social sciences arises to Aristotle. For conscious
activity, Aristotle introduced the notion of reflexive self-awareness in sense perception. This …

Conscious activity is grounded in the reflexive self-awareness in sense perception, through
which the codes signifying sensual perceptive events operate and constrain human …