The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

form of abstract and emotionally neutral cognitive representations. Affectivity,when it is taken into account at all,intervenes ...

members of a group.This is the same,a fortiori,for language as for music, both of which are above all social activities. The Ori ...

of complexity corresponds to simple imitation,which is more indirect and implies a certain form of learning.The third step corre ...

Inhelder 1984:41). Such would be the origin of language: the representation of scenes by elementary propositions of protolanguag ...

References Barkow,J.,Cosmides,L.,and Tooby,J.(1992).The Adapted Mind:Evolutionary Psychol- ogy and the Generation of Culture.New ...

Harry Jerison Abstract Paleoneurology, the study of fossil “brains,” provides direct evidence about the 500-million-year history ...

limitations are quite appropriate,however,for the relationship between brain and musical experience,because it is only at such g ...

The evolution of unusual cognitive capacity is the special feature of the evolution of enlarged brains in birds and mammals.In m ...

The first birds probably evolved as small specialized dinosaurs with feathers,an event that occurred during the early to middle ...

In the face of such evidence of rapid evolution and diversification of morphological traits,can we assume that behavioral traits ...

is an aspect of their almost specific adaptation among mammals for diurnicity. Sensory cells are homologous certainly for mammal ...

exists.Control of behavior (and experience) involves extensive neural circuitry in the brain,the function of which is becoming b ...

To make a somewhat different point,I boxed the points giving data on the smallest known primate,the mouse lemur (Microcebus muri ...

one another,following the rule of the equation of the best-fitting line that is drawn in the graph. This does not mean that brai ...

line.The small sizes of these polygons show that individual differences within a species are relatively small compared with thos ...

Brain Organization:Diversity Although the uniformities are impressive,diversity among species with respect to their brains is ev ...

regard.We usually imagine the experience of other species of auditory events as primarily an extension of sensitivity rather tha ...

identified,but these areas also contain specialized subareas.Evidence is good,for example,that when one learns a foreign languag ...

for mammals (figure 12.4).(Readers can see the original of the specimen for views of many mammalian brains at http://www.neuroph ...

that perceptual-cognitive functions of neocortex evolved progressively in at least some lineages. Complementing this information ...