Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33443199›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Sound-induced motion in chimpanzees does not imply shared ancestry for music or dance.

Mila Bertolo, Manvir Singh, Samuel A Mehr

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Core systems of music perception.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025
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  4. Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2021
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  6. Origins of music in credible signaling.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mila BertoloDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; sam@wjh.harvard.edu mila_bertolo@g.harvard.edu.
Manvir SinghDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-6026-947X
Samuel A MehrDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; sam@wjh.harvard.edu mila_bertolo@g.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9400-7718

Funding

Psychological functions of music in infancyDP5OD024566 · OD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MEHR, SAMUEL A · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
NIH HHS DP5 OD024566
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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DancingMusicAnimalsMotionPan troglodytesSound

Identifiers

PMID33443199
PMCPMC7812764

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