Rhythm & Pitch || Animal music cognition Leiden
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Rhythm & Pitch || Animal music cognition Leiden
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Research group led by Michelle J. Spierings. How we evolved our musicality? To unravel this question we study acoustic perception and production in birds and primates.
Are you ready for the rhythm? Chimps are too! In this paper, Bas van der Vleuten, Veerle Hovenkamp, and Judith M. Varkevisser led by Michelle J. Spierings find out that chimpanzees have rhythmical displays with differences between individuals and contexts! Check it out!

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Context-dependent rhythmicity in chimpanzee displays | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Rhythm is an important component of human language and music production. Rhythms such as isochrony (intervals spaced equally in time) are also present in vocalizations of certain non-human species, including several birds and mammals. This study aimed to ...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:01 PM