ReviewBMC neuroscience2024
Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning.
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- Female Budgerigars Attend Equally to Rhythmic Beat or Repetition, While Humans Prioritize Their Combination.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
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- Rhythmic skills mediate the link between music training and cognition via attention and phonological processing.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- The Influence of Dancesport on College Students' Rhythm Perception Ability.Brain sciences · 2026Article
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- Computational modeling of rhythmic expectations: Perspectives, pitfalls, and prospects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Review
- Behavior-Relevant Periodized Neural Representation of Acoustic But Not Tactile Rhythm in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
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- Syllable as a Synchronization Mechanism That Makes Human Speech Possible.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The social and neural bases of creative movement: workshop overview.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning.BMC neuroscience · 2024Review
- Tapping into the vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Editorial: The musical brain, volume II.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evidence for a shared cognitive mechanism underlying relative rhythmic and melodic perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Dancing to music is ancient and widespread in human cultures. While dance shows great cultural diversity, it often involves nonvocal rhythmic movements synchronized to musical beats in a predictive and tempo-flexible manner. To date, the only nonhuman animals known to spontaneously move to music in this way are parrots. This paper proposes that human-parrot similarities in movement to music and in the neurobiology of advanced vocal learning hold clues to the evolutionary foundations of human dance. The proposal draws on recent research on the neurobiology of parrot vocal learning by Jarvis and colleagues and on a recent cortical model for speech motor control by Hickock and colleagues. These two lines of work are synthesized to suggest that gene regulation changes associated with the evolution of a dorsal laryngeal pitch control pathway in ancestral humans fortuitously strengthened auditory-parietal cortical connections that support beat-based rhythmic processing. More generally, the proposal aims to explain how and why the evolution of strong forebrain auditory-motor integration in the service of learned vocal control led to a capacity and proclivity to synchronize nonvocal movements to the beat. The proposal specifies cortical brain pathways implicated in the origins of human beat-based dancing and leads to testable predictions and suggestions for future research.
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