A5083632475- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Language and cultural evolution
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Music and Audio Processing
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Digital Communication and Language
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Infant Health and Development
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Music Therapy and Health
- Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
- Diverse Musicological Studies
University of California, San Diego
2017-2024
Boston University
2021
University of Oxford
2021
University of Reading
2021
Pennsylvania State University
2021
Northeastern University
2021
University of Vienna
2021
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa
2021
Harvard University Press
2010-2013
Harvard University
2009-2013
Abstract Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution musicality have focused mainly on value music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function unifies all these theories, enabled at larger scales than grooming other mechanisms available in ancestral primate societies. We combine cross-disciplinary evidence from...
Young children regularly engage in musical activities, but the effects of early music education on children's cognitive development are unknown. While some studies have found associations between training childhood and later nonmusical outcomes, few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) been employed to assess causal lessons child cognition no clear pattern results has emerged. We conducted two RCTs with preschool investigating a brief series classes, as compared similar non-musical form arts...
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution musicality have focused mainly on value music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function unifies all these theories, enabled at larger scales than grooming other mechanisms available in ancestral primate societies. We combine cross-disciplinary evidence from archaeology,...
Recent reports have suggested that many published results are unreliable. To increase the reliability and accuracy of papers, multiple changes been proposed, such as in statistical methods. We support reforms. However, we believe incentive structure scientific publishing must change for reforms to be successful. Under current system, quality individual scientists is judged on basis their number publications citations, with journals similarly via numbers citations. Neither these measures...
Adults across cultures speak to infants in a specific infant-directed manner. We asked whether use this manner of speech (infant- or adult-directed) guide their subsequent visual preferences for social partners. found that 5-month-old encode an individuals' and adult-directed speech, information individuals even after the behavior has ended. Use may act as effective cue select appropriate partners, allowing focus attention on who will provide optimal care opportunity learning. This...
Abstract The forms of many species’ vocal signals are shaped by their functions 1–15 . In humans, a salient context signaling is infant care, as human infants altricial 16, 17 Humans often alter vocalizations to produce “parentese”, speech and song produced for that differ acoustically from ordinary 18–35 in fashions have been proposed support parent-infant communication language learning 36–39 ; modulate affect 33, 40–45 and/or coordinate communicative interactions with 46–48 These theories...
Abstract We compare and contrast the 60 commentaries by 109 authors on pair of target articles Mehr et al. ourselves. The commentators largely reject al.'s fundamental definition music their attempts to refute (1) our social bonding hypothesis, (2) byproduct hypotheses, (3) sexual selection hypotheses for evolution musicality. Instead, generally support more inclusive proposal that credible signaling mechanisms complement one another in explaining cooperation within competition between...
Dance is a universal human behavior and crucial component of musicality. When how does the motivation tendency to move music develop? How this change as process maturation learning? We characterize infants' earliest dance behavior, leveraging parents' extensive at-home observations their children. Parents infants aged 0-24 months (N = 278, 82.7% White, 84.5% in United States, 46.0% household incomes ≥ $100,000) were surveyed regarding child's current (movement by child, during music, that...
This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in United States led to public outcry international protests support Black Lives Matter movement, broader awareness effects systemic racism. Following these events, many organizations have reflected critically on how they participate practices that marginalize underrepresented members their community. The Society for Music Perception Cognition (SMPC) has also been contemplating issues. Here, current SMPC...
How do humans build and navigate their complex social world? Standard theoretical frameworks often attribute this success to a foundational capacity analyze other people’s appearance behavior make inferences about unobservable mental states. Here we argue that picture is incomplete. Human leaves traces in our physical environment reveal presence, goals, even beliefs knowledge. A new body of research shows that, from early life, easily detect these traces—sometimes spontaneously—and readily...
How do people detect lies from the content of messages, and design that go undetected? Lying requires strategic reasoning about how others think respond. We propose a unified framework underlying lie detection, formalized as recursive social reasoning. Senders by inferring likelihood receiver detects potential lies; receivers if sender would lie. Under this framework, we can predict rate produce, which are detected. In Experiment 1, show calibrate extremeness their what they to beliefs goals...
Many studies argue that synchronized movement increases prosocial attitudes and behavior. We reviewed meta-analytic evidence reported effects of synchrony may be driven by experimenter expectancy, leading to bias; participant otherwise known as placebo effects. found a majority published do not adequately control for bias multiple independent replication attempts with added controls have failed find the original In preregistered experiment, we measured expectancy directly, asking whether participants
We have recently found robust evidence of motor entrainment to auditory stimuli in multiple species non-human animal, all which were capable vocal mimicry. In contrast, the ability remained markedly absent many closely related incapable This suggests that mimicry may be a necessary precondition for entrainment. However, within mimicking species, appeared non-randomly, suggesting other components besides play role capacity and tendency entrain. Here we discuss potential additional factors...
Do children use objects to infer the people and actions that created them? We ask how judge whether designs were socially transmitted (copied), asking if a simple perceptual heuristic (more similar = more likely copied), or make rational, flexible inference (Bayesian inverse planning). found evidence planning reason about artifacts’ designs: When saw two identical designs, they did not always copying occurred. Instead, similarity was weaker of when an alternative explanation ‘explained away’...
Editorial| April 01 2024 From Commitment to Action: Assessing the Impact of New Mentorship Programs Promote Equity in Society for Music Perception and Cognition Tanushree Agrawal, Agrawal University California, San Diego Search other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, Cui Vienna, Austria Miriam D. Lense, Lense Vanderbilt Medical Center Gerardo Lopez, Lopez The Ohio State Bre-Anna K. Owusu, Owusu McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Adena Schachner,...
Many studies argue that synchronized movement increases prosocial attitudes and behavior. We reviewed meta-analytic evidence reported effects of synchrony may be driven by experimenter expectancy, leading to bias; participant otherwise known as placebo effects. found a majority published do not adequately control for bias multiple independent replication attempts with added controls have failed find the original In preregistered experiment, we measured expectancy directly, asking whether...
Human-made objects (artifacts) often provide rich social information about the people who created them. We explore how reason others from they create, characterizing inferences when transmission of ideas (copying) has occurred. test whether judgments are driven by perceptual heuristics, or structured explanation- based reasoning. develop a Bayesian model explanation-based inference artifacts and simpler ask which better predicts people’s judgments. Our artifact-building task involved two...
Dance is a universal human behavior, and crucial component of musicality. When how does the motivation tendency to move music develop? How this behavior change as process maturation learning? We characterize infants’ earliest dance leveraging parents’ extensive at-home observations their children. Parents infants aged 0-24 months (N = 278, 82.7% White, 84.5% in U.S, 46.0% household incomes ≥$100,000) were surveyed regarding child’s current (movement by child, during music, that parent...
The human ability to deceive others and detect deception has long been tied theory of mind. We make a stronger argument: in order be adept liars – balance gain (i.e. maximizing their own reward) plausibility maintaining realistic lie) humans calibrate lies under the assumption that partner is rational, utility-maximizing agent. develop an adversarial recursive Bayesian model aims formalize behaviors lie detectors. compare this (1) does not perform mind computations (2) perfect knowledge...