title: Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality.
abstract: Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and cultural construct based on that very musicality. One critical challenge is to delineate the constituent elements of musicality. What biological and cognitive mechanisms are essential for perceiving, appreciating and making music? Progress in understanding the evolution of music cognition depends upon adequate characterization of the constituent mechanisms of musicality and the extent to which they are present in non-human species. We argue for the importance of identifying these mechanisms and delineating their functions and developmental course, as well as suggesting effective means of studying them in human and non-human animals. It is virtually impossible to underpin the evolutionary role of musicality as a whole, but a multicomponent perspective on musicality that emphasizes its constituent capacities, development and neural cognitive specificity is an excellent starting point for a research programme aimed at illuminating the origins and evolution of musical behaviour as an autonomous trait.
authors: Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC), Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94242, 1090 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands honing@uva.nl.
authors: Henkjan
authors: H
authors: Honing
authors: Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors: Carel
authors: C
authors: ten Cate
authors: Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music and BRAMS, Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, 1420 Mount Royal Boulevard, Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7.
authors: Isabelle
authors: I
authors: Peretz
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Canada L5L 1C6.
authors: Sandra E
authors: SE
authors: Trehub
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music
keywords: evolution of music; multicomponent view; music cognition; music perception; musicality
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