Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species
Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.061
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发表时间：
2009-05-26
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影响因子：
9.2
通讯作者：
Hauser, Marc D.
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作者：
Schachner, Adena;Brady, Timothy F.;Hauser, Marc D.
人类的音乐能力由某些核心现象组成，包括将运动与外部听觉脉冲相结合的倾向[1-3]。这种能力是音乐创作和协调舞蹈的基础，被反复强调为人类独有的[4-11]。然而，最近有人假设，夹带演变为声音模仿的副产品，产生强烈的预测，只有声音模仿动物可能能够夹带[12，13]。在这里，我们提供了比较数据，证明存在两个熟练的声乐模仿非人类动物（鹦鹉），夹带音乐，自发地产生类似人类舞蹈的同步动作。我们还提供了一个广泛的比较数据集，从全球视频数据库系统地分析夹带在数百个物种的声音模仿能力和能力的证据。尽管数据库中声音非模仿者的代表性较高，并且模仿者和非模仿者对人类和音乐的暴露程度相当，但只有声音模仿者表现出了夹带的证据。我们的结论是，夹带是不是唯一的人类和夹带跨物种的分布支持的假设，夹带演变为一个副产品的声音模仿的选择。
The human capacity for music consists of certain core phenomena, including the tendency to entrain, or align movement, to an external auditory pulse [1-3]. This ability, fundamental both for music production and for coordinated dance, has been repeatedly highlighted as uniquely human [4-11]. However, it has recently been hypothesized that entrainment evolved as a by-product of vocal mimicry, generating the strong prediction that only vocal mimicking animals may be able to entrain [12, 13]. Here we provide comparative data demonstrating the existence of two proficient vocal mimicking nonhuman animals (parrots) that entrain to music, spontaneously producing synchronized movements resembling human dance. We also provide an extensive comparative data set from a global video database systematically analyzed for evidence of entrainment in hundreds of species both capable and incapable of vocal mimicry. Despite the higher representation of vocal nonmimics in the database and comparable exposure of mimics and nonmimics to humans and music, only vocal mimics showed evidence of entrainment. We conclude that entrainment is not unique to humans and that the distribution of entrainment across species supports the hypothesis that entrainment evolved as a by-product of selection for vocal mimicry.