A hypothesis on the biological origins and social evolution of music and dance

Dissociation between Musical and Monetary Reward Responses in Specific Musical Anhedonia

(2014) Ernest Mas-Herrero et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Windscape and tortuosity shape the flight costs of northern gannets

(2014) F. Amelineau et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions

(2014) Stefan Koelsch   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Dorsal Raphe Neurons Signal Reward through 5-HT and Glutamate

(2014) Zhixiang Liu et al.   NEURON

Losing the beat: deficits in temporal coordination

(2014) C. Palmer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Overtone-based pitch selection in hermit thrush song: Unexpected convergence with scale construction in human music

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Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference

(2014) A. J. Corcoran et al.   SCIENCE

Chimpanzees prefer African and Indian music over silence.

(2014) Morgan E. Mingle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION

Energy Landscapes Shape Animal Movement Ecology

(2013) Emily L. C. Shepard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Amusic does not mean unmusical: Beat perception and synchronization ability despite pitch deafness

(2013) Jessica Phillips-Silver et al.   COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Motor circuits help encode auditory memories of vocal models used to guide vocal learning

(2013) Todd F. Roberts 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

Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals

(2013) Joe Parker et al.   NATURE

Processing of primary and secondary rewards: A quantitative meta-analysis and review of human functional neuroimaging studies

(2013) Guillaume Sescousse et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: Towards a unified theory of musical emotions

(2013) Patrik N. Juslin   Physics of Life Reviews

Bottlenose dolphins can use learned vocal labels to address each other

(2013) S. L. King et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From perception to pleasure: Music and its neural substrates

(2013) R. J. Zatorre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee

(2013) Yuko Hattori et al.   Scientific Reports

Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning

(2012) Todd F Roberts et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Music and movement share a dynamic structure that supports universal expressions of emotion

(2012) B. Sievers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Music Exposure Induced Prolongation of Cardiac Allograft Survival and Generated Regulatory CD4+ Cells in Mice

(2012) M. Uchiyama et al.   TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS

Born to dance but beat deaf: A new form of congenital amusia

(2011) Jessica Phillips-Silver et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Vertical transmission of learned signatures in a wild parrot

(2011) K. S. Berg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Anxiolytic effect of music exposure on BDNFMet/Met transgenic mice

(2010) Wen-Jing Li et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Optogenetics

(2010) Karl Deisseroth   NATURE METHODS

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

(2010) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Subjective Appraisal of Music

(2009) Elvira Brattico et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Neural Reorganization Underlies Improvement in Stroke-induced Motor Dysfunction by Music-supported Therapy

(2009) E. Altenmüller et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Music Instinct

(2009) Steven Mithen   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

Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music

(2009) Thomas Fritz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species

(2009) Adena Schachner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany

(2009) Nicholas J. Conard et al.   NATURE

Musical emotions: Functions, origins, evolution

(2009) Leonid Perlovsky   Physics of Life Reviews

Orangutans employ unique strategies to control branch flexibility

(2009) S. K. S. Thorpe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the role and origin of isochrony in human rhythmic entrainment

(2008) Bjorn H. Merker et al.   CORTEX

The primal role of the vestibular system in determining musical rhythm

(2008) Laurel J. Trainor et al.   CORTEX

Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system

(2008) Josh H McDermott et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The origins of language and the evolution of music: A comparative perspective

(2008) Nobuo Masataka   Physics of Life Reviews

What the bat's voice tells the bat's brain

(2008) N. Ulanovsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

South American Sea Lions (Otaria flavescens) Avoid Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Predation

(2008) Alejandro R. Vila et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS