Lecture 20 Music Flashcards
Music
Very similar to the wat mothers and fathers talk to there children.
Interfaces with cognition and is universal in all human cultures.
How is Music used
Social bonding Emotional regulation Mother-infant interaction Healing Religion Aesthetic
Music (evolution)
by product of other things such as
motor control
sensitivity to speech
Or calls: sighs, laughs, cries
“Auditory Cheesecake”
Supernormal stimulus
Steven Pinker’s view
Support for music being evolved
ivory pipes found 42’000 years ago
Cross cultural
Triggers emotions
Evidence against evolution of Music
study found that music does not help with mating success.
Music in mate selection
It can be attractive in an aesthetic sense
similar they way birds use sound
Robin Dunbar’s Social bonding theory
Social bonding replaced grooming
Used to form alliances
Synchronized movement releases endorphins
Listening releases opioids
And serotonin and dopamine
Coalition Signaling theory
the idea that music is used a territory marking/ defense technique.
Relationship between Music and language
In EEG tests, researchers played songs with errors and the subjects brain was able to detect the error showing there is some relationship
EEG
measures brain activity at the scalp
Cultural differences (Pitches)
People from different cultures describe high and low pitches as different descriptions based on the language they grew up with.
Emotion on 2d space
Different type of music evokes different emotion
Sad music
Low pitches
Dissonance
Slow tempo
Minor key
sad speech is in a minor key
Music memory is dissociable
music has its own memory separate from other memories
Speech to song
After speech repetition over and over again it can form a song
