<a href="http://s.mehr.cz/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sam Mehr</a> and <a href="https://www.manvir.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Manvir Singh</a> from Harvard's <a href="http://themusiclab.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Music Lab</a> talk with us about how they used songs from the <a href="http://www.naturalhistoryofsong.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Natural History of Song</a> database to find out if form-function associations in vocal music are detectable by listeners worldwide. Their article, "<br><a href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31675-5">Form and function in human song</a>" was published in <a href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>Cu...
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Febru...
Music may be considered a universal language. The same components that make up music – tempo, rhythm...
Humans use music for a variety of social functions: we sing to accompany dance, to soothe babies, to...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
This repository contains 14-second excerpts of the Natural History of Song Discography. The audio co...
What is universal about music, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical be...
Harmony is a fundamental attribute of music. Close connections exist between music and mathematics s...
Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integra...
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Gradua...
To understand why music is structured the way it is, we need an explanation that accounts for both t...
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value o...
Music is a peculiar human behavior, yet we still know little as to why and how music emerged. For ce...
Music is a ubiquitous and vital part of the lives of billions of people worldwide. Musical creations...
In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for research o...
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Febru...
Music may be considered a universal language. The same components that make up music – tempo, rhythm...
Humans use music for a variety of social functions: we sing to accompany dance, to soothe babies, to...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
This repository contains 14-second excerpts of the Natural History of Song Discography. The audio co...
What is universal about music, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical be...
Harmony is a fundamental attribute of music. Close connections exist between music and mathematics s...
Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integra...
Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Gradua...
To understand why music is structured the way it is, we need an explanation that accounts for both t...
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value o...
Music is a peculiar human behavior, yet we still know little as to why and how music emerged. For ce...
Music is a ubiquitous and vital part of the lives of billions of people worldwide. Musical creations...
In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for research o...
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Febru...
Music may be considered a universal language. The same components that make up music – tempo, rhythm...