The origins of music in auditory scene analysis and the roles of evolution and culture in musical creation.

摘要: Whether music was an evolutionary adaptation that conferred survival advantages or a cultural creation has generated much debate. Consistent with hypothesis, is unique to humans, emerges early in development and universal across societies. However, the adaptive benefit of far from obvious. Music highly flexible, generative changes rapidly over time, consistent hypothesis. In this paper, it proposed musical pitch timing structure adapted preexisting features auditory processing evolved for scene analysis (ASA). Thus, may have emerged initially as made possible by adaptations ASA. some aspects music, such its emotional social power, subsequently proved beneficial led enhanced behaviour. Ontogenetic phylogenetic evidence considered regard. particular, auditory–motor pathways humans enable movement entrainment consequent increases cohesion, enabling affect reward centres brain should be investigated adaptations. It concluded origins are complex probably involved exaptation, adaptation.