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Which melodic universals emerge from repeated signaling games?

2017-10-24

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Language and music are peculiar human behaviors. We spend a large portion of our lives speaking, reading, processing speech, performing music and listening to tunes. At the same time, we still know very little as to why and how these structured behaviors emerged in our species. For the particular case of music, the mystery is even greater than language. Music is a widespread human behavior which does not seem to c...

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Literature Corpus work: 428340a8-a5b5-5a26-93ad-18ca6ebcacb1
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3366v1

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