The nature of music from a biological perspective
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| year | 2006 |
| current status | published |
| journal | Cognition |
| volume | 100 |
| pages | 1-32 |
| reference | Peretz, I. (2006) The nature of music from a biological perspective Cognition , vol. 100, pp. 1-32 |
Abstract
Music, as language, is a universal human trait. Throughout human history and across all cultures, people have produced and enjoyed music. Despite its ubiquity, the musical capacity is rarely studied as a biological function. Music is typically viewed as a cultural invention. In this paper, the evidence bearing on the biological perspective of the musical capacity is reviewed. Related issues, such as domain-specificity, innateness, and brain localization, are addressed in an attempt to offer a unified conceptual basis for the study of music processing. This scheme should facilitate the study of the biological foundations of music b bringing together the fields of genetics, developmental and comparative research, neurosciences, and musicology.
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