Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence. Kaplan, G. Loomad ja muusika:kultuurilised määratlused ja sensoorne tõendusmaterjal., 37(3/4):423--453, July, 2009. ![Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex It was once thought that solely humans were capable of complex cognition but research has produced substantial evidence to the contrary. Art and music, however, are largely seen as unique to humans and the evidence seems to be overwhelming, or is it? Art indicates the creation of something novel, not naturally occurring in the environment. To prove its presence or absence in animals is difficult. Moreover, connections between music and language at a neuroscientific as well as a behavioural level are not fully explored to date. Even more problematic is the notion of an aesthetic sense. Music, so it is said, can be mimetic, whereas birdsong is not commonly thought of as being mimetic but as either imitation or mimicry and, in the latter case, as a 'mindless' act (parrots parroting). This paper will present a number of examples in which animals show signs of responsiveness to music and even engage in musical activity and this will be discussed from an ethological perspective. A growing body of research now reports that auditory memory and auditory mechanisms in animals are not as simplistic as once thought and evidence suggests, in some cases, the presence of musical abilities in animals. (English)
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abstract = {It was once thought that solely humans were capable of complex cognition but research has produced substantial evidence to the contrary. Art and music, however, are largely seen as unique to humans and the evidence seems to be overwhelming, or is it? Art indicates the creation of something novel, not naturally occurring in the environment. To prove its presence or absence in animals is difficult. Moreover, connections between music and language at a neuroscientific as well as a behavioural level are not fully explored to date. Even more problematic is the notion of an aesthetic sense. Music, so it is said, can be mimetic, whereas birdsong is not commonly thought of as being mimetic but as either imitation or mimicry and, in the latter case, as a 'mindless' act (parrots parroting). This paper will present a number of examples in which animals show signs of responsiveness to music and even engage in musical activity and this will be discussed from an ethological perspective. A growing body of research now reports that auditory memory and auditory mechanisms in animals are not as simplistic as once thought and evidence suggests, in some cases, the presence of musical abilities in animals. (English)},
number = {3/4},
urldate = {2015-09-25TZ},
journal = {Loomad ja muusika:kultuurilised määratlused ja sensoorne tõendusmaterjal.},
author = {Kaplan, Gisela},
month = {July},
year = {2009},
keywords = {ANIMAL behavior, AUDITORY perception in birds, COGNITION in animals, HOMINIDS, MIMESIS, MUSICAL ability},
pages = {423--453}
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