Human brain adapted for music perception

Subject: Human brain adapted for music perception
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Jul 19 - 11:51 AM

One of those findings that's inevitably going to get generalized into pseudoscientific trash, but anyway: our brains seem to have evolved to preferentially process the sort of pure sounds you get in musical performances, rather than to deal with any old noise that comes along.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711111913.htm

Subject: RE: Human brain adapted for music perception
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Jul 19 - 10:45 AM

Thanks, Jack. That's interesting. I wish I could hear a few examples of sounds with and without pitch or tone.

Subject: RE: Human brain adapted for music perception
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Jul 19 - 10:48 AM

It just occurred to me that if we were not equipped to be sensitive to pitch, we would not have the languages we do where the same syllable pronounced high or low means something different.

A friend of mine from Taiwan once told me that her language has five pitches. 'Tones, she called them.

Subject: RE: Human brain adapted for music perception
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Jul 19 - 03:26 AM

Watch this video where a circus lion goes from a cage in Belgium to a refuge in Kenya. At 9:30 he enjoys a nice chicken dinner. At 10:00, see his pleased reaction to music.

pleased expression