8 articles in this issue
Nicola Dibben,Renee Timmers
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David Huron,Matthew Davis
Small pitch movement is known to characterize sadness in speech prosody. Small melodic interval sizes have also been observed in nominally sad music––at least in the case of Western music. Starting with melodies in the major mode, a study is reported whic... see more
Richard Parncutt
On average, melodies in minor keys have smaller intervals between successive tones than melodies in major keys - consistent with the emotional difference between major and minor (Huron, 2008). Huron and Davis (2012) additionally showed that a part of this... see more
Sarha Moore
This commentary addresses Huron and Davis’s question of whether “The Harmonic Minor Provides an Optimum Way of Reducing Average Melodic Interval Size, Consistent with Sad Affect Cues” within any non-Western musical cultures. The harmonic minor scale and o... see more
Micah R. Bregman,John R. Iversen,David Lichman,Meredith Reinhart,Aniruddh D. Patel
According to the “vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis” (Patel, 2006), only species capable of complex vocal learning, such as humans and parrots, have the capacity to synchronize their movements to a musical beat. While empirical resea... see more
Adena Schachner
Bregman and colleagues describe methods for testing whether horses entrain their actions to an auditory beat. If horses can entrain, does this necessarily imply that there is no causal relationship between vocal learning and entrainment? I propose an alte... see more
Sandy Venneman
This commentary provides additional information related to equines and suggestions for strengthening the proposed protocol for testing synchronization to a musical beat in this species.
Jakub Matyja
Book review