Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective

Frontiers in Cognition, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 4

Published: Feb. 24, 2025

This article addresses the origins and purpose of communal music-making, including dance, its role in human sociality. It accords special significance to adapted nature vocalization, sensorimotor discrimination that allows prediction then generation musically relevant, coordinated simultaneous movements. Commencing with a historical survey development ideas about evolutionary importance music social behavior, this mini-review sets out define explore key issues involved an explanation. These include: acquisition control parameters required for vocal production (synchronization pitch, timbre, duration loudness); exchange transmission pitched utterances unison as well harmony; roles natural sexual selection shaping musical abilities; cooperative consequences bonding such interaction throughout life; behaviors across generations, between genes culture drives evolution complex behavior Homo sapiens . The concludes brief review current research deals contributory features field, especially neuroscience which continues provide important psychophysiological data reinforces long-held proposal has promoting cooperative, prosocial interactions leading health wellbeing over lifespan.

Language: Английский

Novel Nonpeptide as Oxytocin Receptor Agonist

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 21, 2025

This highlight describes a series of novel 1,4-benzodiazepine-based nonpeptides as oxytocin receptor (OT) agonists. The reported compounds demonstrate enhanced potency and selectivity compared to reference compounds, warranting further investigation for potential therapeutic applications in the treatment OT-related pathologies.

Language: Английский

Complement component C4a binds to oxytocin and modulates plasma oxytocin concentrations and social behavior in male mice

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 152004 - 152004

Published: May 1, 2025

Language: Английский