Searching for the origins of musicality across species

Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

(2015) H. Honing et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Timbre influences chord discrimination in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) but not humans (Homo sapiens).

(2014) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Monkeys time their pauses of movement and not their movement-kinematics during a synchronization-continuation rhythmic task

(2014) Sophie Donnet et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Zebra finches are sensitive to prosodic features of human speech

(2014) M. J. Spierings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Motor system evolution and the emergence of high cognitive functions

(2014) Germán Mendoza et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Human melody singing by bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrula) gives hints about a cognitive note sequence processing

(2013) Jürgen Nicolai et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Chickadees fail standardized operant tests for octave equivalence

(2013) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Investigation of musicality in birdsong

(2013) David Rothenberg et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) can keep the beat: Motor entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli in a non vocal mimic.

(2013) Peter Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Interval Tuning in the Primate Medial Premotor Cortex as a General Timing Mechanism

(2013) H. Merchant et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Is birdsong music? Evaluating harmonic intervals in songs of a Neotropical songbird

(2012) Marcelo Araya-Salas   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Biological relevance of acoustic signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird

(2012) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Pitch chroma discrimination, generalization, and transfer tests of octave equivalence in humans

(2012) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Do humans and nonhuman animals share the grouping principles of the iambic–trochaic law?

(2012) Daniela M. de la Mora et al.   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Pitch Perception

(2012) A. J. Oxenham   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Perception of missing fundamental pitch by 3- and 4-month-old human infants

(2012) Bonnie K. Lau et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Prosody Discrimination by Songbirds (Padda oryzivora)

(2012) Nozomi Naoi et al.   PLoS One

Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) and human (Homo sapiens) chord discrimination.

(2011) Marisa Hoeschele et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Measuring time with different neural chronometers during a synchronization-continuation task

(2011) H. Merchant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acoustic Markers of Prominence Influence Infants’ and Adults’ Segmentation of Speech Sequences

(2011) Ricardo A. H. Bion et al.   LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

Rhythmic synchronization tapping to an audio–visual metronome in budgerigars

(2011) Ai Hasegawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Testing meter, rhythm, and tempo discriminations in pigeons

(2010) Carl Erick Hagmann et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Differential Influence of Frequency, Timing, and Intensity Cues in a Complex Acoustic Categorization Task

(2010) Katherine I. Nagel et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Studying Synchronization to a Musical Beat in Nonhuman Animals

(2009) Aniruddh D. Patel et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Beat Perception

(2009) Jessica A. Grahn   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal

(2009) Aniruddh D. Patel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species

(2009) Adena Schachner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Interval time coding by neurons in the presupplementary and supplementary motor areas

(2009) Akihisa Mita et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech

(2009) V. R. Ohms et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Convergence of calls as animals form social bonds, active compensation for noisy communication channels, and the evolution of vocal learning in mammals.

(2008) Peter L. Tyack   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Mechanisms and evolution of synchronous chorusing: Emergent properties and adaptive functions in Neoconocephalus katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).

(2008) Michael D. Greenfield et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Molecular Mapping of Movement-Associated Areas in the Avian Brain: A Motor Theory for Vocal Learning Origin

(2008) Gesa Feenders et al.   PLoS One

Timbre-independent extraction of pitch in newborn infants

(2008) Gábor P. Háden et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY