2017
DOI: 10.1177/1029864917738130
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Chuckrow’s theory of the prenatal origin of music

Abstract: In 1965, the second author, a graduate student in physics at New York University, drafted a paper entitled “Music: A synthesis of prenatal stimuli,” in which he proposed that structural elements of music such as rhythm and melody are analogs of fetal stimuli. In the 1980s, the first author independently published a similar theory. Both authors considered fetal perception of internal body sounds, correlations between those sounds and maternal states, the ability of the fetus to hear and remember sound patterns,… Show more

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“…Perception of sound and rhythm in utero has been suggested to influence the individual's development of musical abilities (Parncutt, 1993;Parncutt & Chuckrow, 2017). Brain development is largely shaped by early sensory experience ( Figure 1) (Webb, Heller, Benson, & Lahav, 2015).…”
Section: Sensory Experience In Uteromentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Perception of sound and rhythm in utero has been suggested to influence the individual's development of musical abilities (Parncutt, 1993;Parncutt & Chuckrow, 2017). Brain development is largely shaped by early sensory experience ( Figure 1) (Webb, Heller, Benson, & Lahav, 2015).…”
Section: Sensory Experience In Uteromentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A more basic challenge to non‐human primates may be their typical quadrupedal locomotion. The isochronic beat generated by human bipedal locomotion, heard and felt as early as in utero , may have facilitated the development of rhythmic/musical abilities, including synchronous locomotion, in humans (Larsson, Richter, & Ravignani, 2019; Parncutt & Chuckrow, 2019). Footfall patterns in quadrupeds are relatively complex, change with speed (Hildebrand, 1989; Larsson et al, 2019), and are apparently more difficult for bipedal humans to perceive (e.g., Horvath et al, 2009).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The dancer perceives entrainment (coordination, synchrony, coupling, stable phase relationship) between musical sound and dance movements. Similarly, the fetus perceives entrainment between footstep sounds and fetal movements when the mother walks [129][130][131][132][133]. A link of this kind can explain the experience of groove, understood as a "pleasurable drive toward action" in which "measures of the quality of sensorimotor coupling predict the degree of experienced groove" [134].…”
Section: Postures and Movementsmentioning
confidence: 99%