Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning

BMC Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 25(1)

Published: Nov. 6, 2024

Abstract Dancing to music is ancient and widespread in human cultures. While dance shows great cultural diversity, it often involves nonvocal rhythmic movements synchronized musical beats a predictive tempo-flexible manner. To date, the only nonhuman animals known spontaneously move this way are parrots. This paper proposes that human-parrot similarities movement neurobiology of advanced vocal learning hold clues evolutionary foundations dance. The proposal draws on recent research parrot by Jarvis colleagues cortical model for speech motor control Hickock colleagues. These two lines work synthesized suggest gene regulation changes associated with evolution dorsal laryngeal pitch pathway ancestral humans fortuitously strengthened auditory-parietal connections support beat-based processing. More generally, aims explain how why strong forebrain auditory-motor integration service learned led capacity proclivity synchronize beat. specifies brain pathways implicated origins dancing leads testable predictions suggestions future research.

Language: Английский

Learning Sensorimotor Synchronization Through Reinforcement in Neural Networks

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский