Preference for consonant music over dissonant music by an infant chimpanzee

Sugimoto, Tasuku; Kobayashi, Hiromi; Nobuyoshi, Noritomo; Kiriyama, Yasushi; Takeshita, Hideko; Nakamura, Tomoyasu; Hashiya, Kazuhide

doi:10.1007/s10329-009-0160-3

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“…In fact, both 2-month-old infants and domestic chicks display a preference for listening/approaching consonant over dissonant tune-intervals (Chiandetti and Vallortigara, 2011;Trainor et al, 2002; see also Sugimoto et al, 2010 for a study on an infant human-raised chimpanzee). This could be related to the prevalence of harmonic relationship between frequencies in some categories of biological sounds (e.g., Schwartz et al, 2003).…”

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Roots of a social brain: Developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms

Rosa‐Salva

Mayer

Vallortígara

2015

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

110

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Section: Acoustical Predispositionsmentioning

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Roots of a social brain: Developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms

Rosa‐Salva

Mayer

Vallortígara

2015

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

110

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“…mheinz@purdue.edu (e.g., Bach preferred over Schoenberg) (Sugimoto et al, 2010;but see McDermott and Hauser, 2004;. The fact that these preferences can exist in the absence of long-term enculturation or music training and may not be restricted solely to humans suggests that certain perceptual attributes of musical pitch may be rooted in fundamental processing and constraints of the auditory system (McDermott and Hauser, 2005;Trehub and Hannon, 2006).…”

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Auditory-nerve responses predict pitch attributes related to musical consonance-dissonance for normal and impaired hearing

Bidelman

Heinz²

2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Human listeners prefer consonant over dissonant musical intervals and the perceived contrast between these classes is reduced with cochlear hearing loss. Population-level activity of normal and impaired model auditory-nerve (AN) fibers was examined to determine (1) if peripheral auditory neurons exhibit correlates of consonance and dissonance and (2) if the reduced perceptual difference between these qualities observed for hearing-impaired listeners can be explained by impaired AN responses. In addition, acoustical correlates of consonance-dissonance were also explored including periodicity and roughness. Among the chromatic pitch combinations of music, consonant intervals/chords yielded more robust neural pitch-salience magnitudes (determined by harmonicity/ periodicity) than dissonant intervals/chords. In addition, AN pitch-salience magnitudes correctly predicted the ordering of hierarchical pitch and chordal sonorities described by Western music theory. Cochlear hearing impairment compressed pitch salience estimates between consonant and dissonant pitch relationships. The reduction in contrast of neural responses following cochlear hearing loss may explain the inability of hearing-impaired listeners to distinguish musical qualia as clearly as normal-hearing individuals. Of the neural and acoustic correlates explored, AN pitch salience was the best predictor of behavioral data. Results ultimately show that basic pitch relationships governing music are already present in initial stages of neural processing at the AN level.

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“…Although their perception is in some cases dependent on context (4), marked differences between consonance and dissonance are typically apparent even in isolated chords (5)(6)(7)(8). Preferences for consonance appear to be present in human infants (9)(10)(11)(12) and perhaps also in other species with little exposure to music (13,14, although see also ref. 15), consistent with a biological basis.…”

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The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia

Cousineau

McDermott

Peretz

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Some combinations of musical notes sound pleasing and are termed "consonant," but others sound unpleasant and are termed "dissonant." The distinction between consonance and dissonance plays a central role in Western music, and its origins have posed one of the oldest and most debated problems in perception. In modern times, dissonance has been widely believed to be the product of "beating": interference between frequency components in the cochlea that has been believed to be more pronounced in dissonant than consonant sounds. However, harmonic frequency relations, a higher-order sound attribute closely related to pitch perception, has also been proposed to account for consonance. To tease apart theories of musical consonance, we tested sound preferences in individuals with congenital amusia, a neurogenetic disorder characterized by abnormal pitch perception. We assessed amusics' preferences for musical chords as well as for the isolated acoustic properties of beating and harmonicity. In contrast to control subjects, amusic listeners showed no preference for consonance, rating the pleasantness of consonant chords no higher than that of dissonant chords. Amusics also failed to exhibit the normally observed preference for harmonic over inharmonic tones, nor could they discriminate such tones from each other. Despite these abnormalities, amusics exhibited normal preferences and discrimination for stimuli with and without beating. This dissociation indicates that, contrary to classic theories, beating is unlikely to underlie consonance. Our results instead suggest the need to integrate harmonicity as a foundation of music preferences, and illustrate how amusia may be used to investigate normal auditory function. music perception | aesthetic preferences | roughness

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Preference for consonant music over dissonant music by an infant chimpanzee

Cited by 76 publications

References 21 publications

Roots of a social brain: Developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms

Roots of a social brain: Developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms

Auditory-nerve responses predict pitch attributes related to musical consonance-dissonance for normal and impaired hearing

The basis of musical consonance as revealed by congenital amusia

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