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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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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Why music psychology needs larger and more diverse datasets and how citizen science can help

Published: March 7, 2024

To produce more nuanced, generalisable, and culturally representative understanding, music psychology needs to engage with diverse forms of study the musical experiences, perceptions, behaviour people. But logistical challenges how feasibly collect larger datasets can be a significant barrier achieving this goal. While there are also several other inherent broadening empirical scope in way, here, I focus on reasons why generalisable inferences require datasets. Then meet challenge collecting such expanded datasets, suggest that citizen science approach research participation may particularly promising, review recent studies taking approach. Citizen projects function at many different scales, but its extremes, it unlock shift from studying tens students local campus millions people around world. Despite own limitations challenges, has potential play unique role expanding diversifying psychology.

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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The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice

Current Anthropology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 65(3), P. 503 - 527

Published: June 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Cross-cultural relationships between music, emotion, and visual imagery: A comparative study of Iran, Canada, and Japan [Stage 1 Registered Report]

Published: March 1, 2023

Many people experience emotions and visual imagery while listening to music. Previous research has identified cross-modal associations between musical features as well cross-cultural links music emotion imagery. However, few studies have simultaneously investigated music, imagery, in order distinguish the role of cultural experiences contrast more widespread perceptual capabilities. In this study, we investigate relationship emotional arousal density induced by 6 excerpts differing tempo texture (solo vs group) 72 participants from Japan, Iran, Canada (24 each). We hypothesize that there are cross-culturally consistent relationships changes 1) associations, 2) ratings. The aim study is understand whether emotion, consistent.

Language: Английский

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Weighting of cues to categorization of song versus speech in tone language and non-tone-language speakers

Published: Nov. 10, 2023

One of the most important auditory categorization tasks a listener faces is determining sound’s domain, process which prerequisite for successful within-domain such as recognizing different speech sounds or musical tones. Speech and song are universal in human cultures: how do listeners categorize sequence words belonging to one other these domains? There growing interest acoustic cues that distinguish song, but it remains unclear whether there cross-cultural differences evidence upon rely when making this fundamental perceptual categorization. Here we use speech-to-song illusion, some spoken phrases perceptually transform into repeated, investigate domain-level native speakers tone languages (Mandarin Cantonese residing United Kingdom China) non-tone language (English). We find tone-language non-tone-language largely agree on sound like after repetition, also strength transformation not significantly across backgrounds countries residence. Furthermore, striking similarity perceiving word sequences singing versus speech, including small pitch intervals, flat within-syllable contours, steady beats. These findings support view certain widespread similarities mechanisms by judge if sung.

Language: Английский

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Bases ecológicas e evolutivas do comportamento humano

Published: May 27, 2024

Este livro foi pensado para ser um primeiro texto didático e introdutório às bases ecológicas evolutivas do comportamento humano, voltado o ensino ao nível de graduação. Porém, este também pode útil aqueles entrando na pós-graduação, especialmente vindos áreas sem muita tradição pesquisa ecológica evolutiva. Embora cada capítulo possa lido em qualquer ordem, organizamos modo que a sequência sugerida, vai geral mais específico, permita aprofundamento gradual dos diferentes conceitos disciplinas dedicadas aos estudos ecológicos evolutivos da mente humana.

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Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context

Published: Nov. 24, 2022

Music is an interactive technology associated with religious and communal activities was suggested to have evolved as a participatory activity supporting social bonding. In post-industrial societies, however, music’s role eclipsed by its relatively passive consumption audiences disconnected from performers. It that societies became larger more differentiated, music less focused on solo singing. Here, we consider the prevalence of group singing relationship organization through analysis two global song corpora: 5,776 coded audio recordings 1,024 4,709 ethnographic texts 60 societies. both corpora, find common than singing, it likely in some contexts (e.g. rituals, dance) others healing, infant care). contrast, relationships between structure (community size or differentiation) were not consistent within corpora. While cannot exclude possibility sampling bias leading systematic under-sampling our results large corpora different data types provide support for nature complex sociality.

Language: Английский

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