Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution
Anglada-Tort et al. use online singing experiments to study oral transmission mechanisms in US and Indian participants. The results show how individual participant biases—vocal, cognitive, and cultural—shape the evolution of musical structures but that social biases are crucial for determining differences and similarities in resulting structures.
United States Luke Poeppel Lara Pearson Ofer Tchernichovski Richard Widdess Max Planck Institute For Empirical Aesthetics
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