ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021
Isochrony, vocal learning, and the acquisition of rhythm and melody.
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- Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor's song.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Rhythmic Roots: The Adaptive Functions of Vocal Isochrony and Its Role in Human Music and Language Evolution.Psihologijske teme = Psychological themes = Psychological topics · 2025Article
- Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A primer on rhythm quantification for fish sounds: a Mediterranean case study.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
A cross-species perspective can extend and provide testable predictions for Savage et al.'s framework. Rhythm and melody, I argue, could bootstrap each other in the evolution of musicality. Isochrony may function as a temporal grid to support rehearsing and learning modulated, pitched vocalizations. Once this melodic plasticity is acquired, focus can shift back to refining rhythm processing and beat induction.
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