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TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 498-512Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01220.x
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Music; Musicality; Evolution; Cognitive development; Innateness; Instinct; Skill learning
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Is the human tendency toward musicality better thought of as the product of a specific, evolved instinct or an acquired skill? Developmental and evolutionary arguments are considered, along with issues of domain-specificity. The article also considers the question of why humans might be consistently and intensely drawn to music if musicality is not in fact the product of a specifically evolved instinct.
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