Friday, 27 April 2001
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GMN.com - News: Carol Krumhansl, a psychologist at Cornell University in New York who studies music perception, told Nature magazine: "It looks like tonal syntax is closely analogous to the part of language we call grammar."
She said the work was very exciting because little is understood about why we posses an ability to appreciate music, or about our urge to create it.
Here's another article on this interesting research.
La Scena Musicale Online / La Scena Musicale ...: Maeß says they saw the effect even in volunteers who were not musically trained, and who were not consciously aware of which chords violated musical rules. "We detected a process which is rather automatic and unconscious," he says.
The finding raises the possibility that language and musical ability appeared at the same time in human evolution. "I think they have evolved together, although I would not dare to say that our experiment is proof of it," says Maeß.
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