Noumouké Doumbia
A5077027689- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Music and Audio Processing
Abstract Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, universal music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations rhythm 39 participant groups 15 countries, spanning urban societies and Indigenous populations. Listeners reproduced random ‘seed’ rhythms; their reproductions were fed back as the stimulus (as game ‘telephone’), such that biases (the prior) could be estimated distribution reproductions. Every tested group showed...
Music is present in every known society, yet varies from place to place. What, if anything, universal music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations rhythm 39 participant groups 15 countries, spanning urban societies and indigenous populations. Listeners reproduced random ‘‘seed’’ rhythms; their reproductions were fed back as the stimulus (as game “telephone”), such that biases (the prior) could be estimated distribution reproductions. Every tested group showed sparse...