The Role of the Baldwin Effect in the Evolution of Human Musicality

Statistical learning in songbirds: from self-tutoring to song culture

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Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound pattern recognition

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Is Birdsong More Like Speech or Music?

(2016) Robert V. Shannon   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties

(2016) Saloni Krishnan et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

(2016) Toshitaka N. Suzuki et al.   Nature Communications

Whistled Turkish alters language asymmetries

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Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins

(2015) Miriam A. Mosing et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Four principles of bio-musicology

(2015) W. T. Fitch   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music

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The effect of music performance on the transcriptome of professional musicians

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The ice-breaker effect: singing mediates fast social bonding

(2015) Eiluned Pearce et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Broca's area processes the hierarchical organization of observed action

(2014) Masumi Wakita   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition

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Grooming and social cohesion in primates: a comment on Grueter et al.

(2013) Robin I.M. Dunbar et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Grooming and group cohesion in primates: implications for the evolution of language

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Biological impact of auditory expertise across the life span: Musicians as a model of auditory learning

(2013) Dana L. Strait et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

Examining neural plasticity and cognitive benefit through the unique lens of musical training

(2013) Sylvain Moreno et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

The interplay between social networks and culture: theoretically and among whales and dolphins

(2013) M. Cantor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate's Foraging Decisions

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Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value

(2013) V. N. Salimpoor et al.   SCIENCE

From Sound to Music: An Evolutionary Approach to Musical Semantics

(2013) Mark Reybrouck   Biosemiotics

Fitness benefits of coalitionary aggression in male chimpanzees

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Finding and Feeling the Musical Beat: Striatal Dissociations between Detection and Prediction of Regularity

(2012) Jessica A. Grahn et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Do Women Prefer More Complex Music around Ovulation?

(2012) Benjamin D. Charlton et al.   PLoS One

Phonological Units in Spoken Word Production: Insights from Cantonese

(2012) Andus Wing-Kuen Wong et al.   PLoS One

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

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Musical Melody and Speech Intonation: Singing a Different Tune

(2012) Robert J. Zatorre et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

FOXP2 and the role of cortico-basal ganglia circuits in speech and language evolution

(2011) Wolfgang Enard   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Gene-culture coevolution and the nature of human sociality

(2011) H. Gintis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

(2010) P. J. Richerson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A role for relaxed selection in the evolution of the language capacity

(2010) T. W. Deacon   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cortical speech processing unplugged: a timely subcortico-cortical framework

(2010) Sonja A. Kotz et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study

(2009) Katie Elizabeth Slocombe et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Broca's Area in Language, Action, and Music

(2009) Luciano Fadiga et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Unspoken knowledge: Implicit learning of structured human dance movement.

(2009) Tajana Opacic et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

Feeling the Beat: Premotor and Striatal Interactions in Musicians and Nonmusicians during Beat Perception

(2009) J. A. Grahn et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Shared neural correlates for language and tool use in Brocaʼs area

(2009) Satomi Higuchi et al.   NEUROREPORT

Musical emotions: Functions, origins, evolution

(2009) Leonid Perlovsky   Physics of Life Reviews

Mathematical Logic in the Human Brain: Syntax

(2009) Roland Friedrich et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Unexpected Chords and of Performer's Expression on Brain Responses and Electrodermal Activity

(2008) Stefan Koelsch et al.   PLoS One