Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species
The human capacity for music consists of certain core phenomena, including the tendency to entrain, or align movement, to an external auditory pulse 1, 2 and 3. This ability, fundamental both for music production and for coordinated dance, has been repeatedly highlighted as uniquely human 4, 5, 6, 7...
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| author | Schachner, Adena Brady, Timothy F. Pepperberg, Irene M. Hauser, Marc D. |
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| description | The human capacity for music consists of certain core phenomena, including the tendency to entrain, or align movement, to an external auditory pulse 1, 2 and 3. This ability, fundamental both for music production and for coordinated dance, has been repeatedly highlighted as uniquely human 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. However, it has recently been hypothesized that entrainment evolved as a by-product of vocal mimicry, generating the strong prediction that only vocal mimicking animals may be able to entrain 12 and 13. Here we provide comparative data demonstrating the existence of two proficient vocal mimicking nonhuman animals (parrots) that entrain to music, spontaneously producing synchronized movements resembling human dance. We also provide an extensive comparative data set from a global video database systematically analyzed for evidence of entrainment in hundreds of species both capable and incapable of vocal mimicry. Despite the higher representation of vocal nonmimics in the database and comparable exposure of mimics and nonmimics to humans and music, only vocal mimics showed evidence of entrainment. We conclude that entrainment is not unique to humans and that the distribution of entrainment across species supports the hypothesis that entrainment evolved as a by-product of selection for vocal mimicry. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/961942022-09-23T14:17:10Z Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species Schachner, Adena Brady, Timothy F. Pepperberg, Irene M. Hauser, Marc D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Brady, Timothy F. The human capacity for music consists of certain core phenomena, including the tendency to entrain, or align movement, to an external auditory pulse 1, 2 and 3. This ability, fundamental both for music production and for coordinated dance, has been repeatedly highlighted as uniquely human 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. However, it has recently been hypothesized that entrainment evolved as a by-product of vocal mimicry, generating the strong prediction that only vocal mimicking animals may be able to entrain 12 and 13. Here we provide comparative data demonstrating the existence of two proficient vocal mimicking nonhuman animals (parrots) that entrain to music, spontaneously producing synchronized movements resembling human dance. We also provide an extensive comparative data set from a global video database systematically analyzed for evidence of entrainment in hundreds of species both capable and incapable of vocal mimicry. Despite the higher representation of vocal nonmimics in the database and comparable exposure of mimics and nonmimics to humans and music, only vocal mimics showed evidence of entrainment. We conclude that entrainment is not unique to humans and that the distribution of entrainment across species supports the hypothesis that entrainment evolved as a by-product of selection for vocal mimicry. James S. McDonnell Foundation (grant) Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation (gift funds) S. Shuman (gift funds) 2015-03-26T13:41:42Z 2015-03-26T13:41:42Z 2009-05 2009-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 09609822 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96194 Schachner, Adena, Timothy F. Brady, Irene M. Pepperberg, and Marc D. Hauser. “Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species.” Current Biology 19, no. 10 (May 2009): 831–836. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.061 Current Biology Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Elsevier B.V. Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | Schachner, Adena Brady, Timothy F. Pepperberg, Irene M. Hauser, Marc D. Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title | Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title_full | Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title_fullStr | Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title_short | Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species |
| title_sort | spontaneous motor entrainment to music in multiple vocal mimicking species |
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