Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(20)

Published: May 15, 2024

Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have compared similarities differences between song, speech, instrumental on a global scale. In this Registered Report, we analyzed two datasets: (i) 300 annotated audio recordings representing matched sets of traditional songs, recited lyrics, conversational melodies from our 75 coauthors speaking 55 languages; (ii) 418 previously published adult-directed song speech 209 individuals 16 languages. Of six preregistered predictions, five were strongly supported: Relative to songs use higher pitch, slower temporal rate, (iii) more stable pitches, while both used similar (iv) pitch interval size (v) timbral brightness. Exploratory analyses suggest that features vary along "musi-linguistic" continuum when including lyrics. Our study provides strong empirical evidence cross-cultural regularities speech.

Language: Английский

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Beyond speech: Exploring diversity in the human voice

iScience, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 26(11), P. 108204 - 108204

Published: Oct. 14, 2023

Humans have evolved voluntary control over vocal production for speaking and singing, while preserving the phylogenetically older system of spontaneous nonverbal vocalizations such as laughs screams. To test systematic acoustic differences between these domains, we analyzed a broad, cross-cultural corpus representing 2 h speech, vocalizations. We show that, speech is relatively low-pitched tonal with mostly regular phonation, singing especially vary enormously in pitch often display harsh-sounding, irregular phonation owing to nonlinear phenomena. The evolution complex supralaryngeal articulatory spectro-temporal modulation has been critical yet not significantly constrained laryngeal source modulation. In contrast, articulation very limited vocalizations, which predominantly contain minimally articulated open vowels rapid temporal roughness range. infer that works best conveying affect, filter mainly facilitates semantic communication.

Language: Английский

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Biological principles for music and mental health

Translational Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(1)

Published: Dec. 4, 2023

Abstract Efforts to integrate music into healthcare systems and wellness practices are accelerating but the biological foundations supporting these initiatives remain underappreciated. As a result, music-based interventions often sidelined in medicine. Here, I bring together advances research from neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry bridge music’s specific human biology with its therapeutic applications. The framework propose organizes neurophysiological effects of around four core elements musicality: tonality, rhythm, reward, sociality. For each, review key concepts, bases, evidence clinical benefits. Within this framework, outline strategy increase impact on health based standardizing treatments their alignment individual differences responsivity musical elements. that an integrated understanding musicality—describing each element’s functional origins, development, phylogeny, neural bases—is critical advancing rational applications mental wellness.

Language: Английский

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Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?

Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 24(11), P. 711 - 722

Published: Oct. 2, 2023

Language: Английский

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Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

Published: Nov. 30, 2022

Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have compared similarities differences between song, speech, instrumental on a global scale. In this Registered Report, we analyzed two datasets: 1) 300 annotated audio recordings representing matched sets of traditional songs, recited lyrics, conversational melodies from our 75 coauthors speaking 55 languages; 2) 418 previously published adult-directed song speech 209 individuals 16 languages. Of six pre-registered predictions, five were strongly supported: relative to songs use higher pitch, slower temporal rate, 3) more stable pitches, while both used similar 4) pitch interval size, 5) timbral brightness. Exploratory analyses suggest that features vary along “musi-linguistic” continuum when including lyrics. Our study provides strong empirical evidence cross-cultural regularities speech.

Language: Английский

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Cultural evolution of music and language

Published: Jan. 30, 2023

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human societies, prompting researchers to investigate why how they evolved. Such research initially focused on the biological evolution capacities create perceive music; later work has been increasingly tackling cultural angle study mechanisms processes driving diversity regularities music language. In this chapter, we review seminal studies We group into observational (e.g., phylogenetic analysis), experimental transmission chains), simulation agent-based models), music-language relationships song/speech melody/prosody). Furthermore, highlight key ideas that each discipline can learn from other promising topics encourage collaborative work. particular, argue more direct comparisons will help better understand commonalities differences in their evolution. This includes parallels (or lack thereof) cognitive motor constraints memorability, ease vocalization), vertical/horizontal with/independent populations), underlying bases vocal learning). Integrating emerging field with larger literature enrich our understanding

Language: Английский

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Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

Published: March 21, 2023

Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces and demographic history, however, unresolved. Using dataset of 5,242 songs from 719 societies, we identify five axes show that music contains geographical historical structure analogous linguistic genetic diversity. After creating matched musical, genetic, data spanning 121 societies containing 981 songs, 1,296 individual profiles, languages, similarities are only weakly inconsistently related or histories, with some regional exceptions such as within Southeast Asia sub-Saharan Africa. Our results suggest traditions largely distinct non-musical aspects human history.

Language: Английский

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Auditory hemispheric asymmetry as a specialization for actions and objects

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 19, 2023

Abstract What is the function of auditory hemispheric asymmetry? We propose that identification sound sources relies on two complementary and perceptually relevant acoustic invariants — actions objects are processed asymmetrically sufficient to model categorize any sound. observed environmental sounds an independent combination purely temporal spectral modulations. Behaviorally, discrimination relied modulations, while Functional magnetic resonance imaging data showed respectively decoded in left right hemispheres, bilateral superior inferior frontal regions. This asymmetry reffects a generic differential processing through neural sensitivity modulations present all supports efficient categorization objects. These results provide ecologically valid framework functional role brain asymmetry.

Language: Английский

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Cultural Evolution and Music

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 20, 2023

Abstract The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research model for understanding how cultural features change over time space. In this chapter, we review on the evolution music, broken down into three major approaches: (i) corpus-based approaches that use large datasets to infer evolutionary patterns, (ii) experimental explore transmission transformation, (iii) ‘music-like’ behaviors non-human species, such as bird whale song, highlights shared mechanisms future directions. Finally, discuss applications issues like musical endangerment, copyright enforcement, algorithmic inequality. Given have yet be fully leveraged, think has potential become a powerful evolution.

Language: Английский

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Auditory-motor synchronization and perception suggest partially distinct time scales in speech and music

Communications Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(1)

Published: Jan. 3, 2024

Speech and music might involve specific cognitive rhythmic timing mechanisms related to differences in the dominant structure. We investigate influence of different motor effectors on rate-specific processing both domains. A perception a synchronization task involving syllable piano tone sequences typically associated with speech (whispering) (finger-tapping) were tested at slow (~2 Hz) fast rates (~4.5 Hz). Although performance was generally better rates, exhibited rate preferences. Finger-tapping advantaged compared whispering but not faster being effector-dependent slow, highly correlated rates. Perception predicted by general finger-tapping component. Our data suggests partially independent for music, possibly differential recruitment cortical circuitry.

Language: Английский

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