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DTSTART:20151117T180500Z
DTEND:20151117T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20260419T110911Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:The evolution of music from emotional signals\, Chaos & Comple
 x Systems Seminar\, Charles T. Snowdon\, UW Department of Psychology
DESCRIPTION:There have been many attempts to explain the evolutionary 
 origins of music. I will review theories of music origins and take the
  perspective that music is originally derived from emotional signals i
 n both humans and animals. An evolutionary approach has two components
 : First\, is music adaptive? How does it improve reproductive success?
  Second\, what\, if any\, are the phylogenetic origins of music? Can w
 e find evidence of music in other species? I will show that music has 
 adaptive value through emotional contagion\, social cohesion and impro
 ved well-being. I will trace the roots of music through the emotional 
 signals of other species suggesting that the emotional aspects of musi
 c have a long evolutionary history. I will show how music and speech a
 re closely interlinked with the musical aspects of speech serving to c
 onvey emotional information. I will describe acoustic structures that 
 communicate emotion in music and present evidence that these acoustic 
 structures are widespread among different human cultures and also that
  similar strictures function to induce emotions in animals. Similar ac
 oustic structures are present in the emotional signals of nonhuman ani
 mals. I will conclude with a discussion of music designed specifically
  to induce emotional states in animals\, both cotton top tamarin monke
 ys and domestic cats. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3813
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