Musicality: Biology and Origins

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Theme issue: Biology, cognition and origins of musicality
March 19, 2015; 370 (1664)

Introduction

Henkjan Honing, Carel ten Cate, Isabelle Peretz, and Sandra E. Trehub
Introduction: Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140088; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0088 (published 2 February 2015)
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Articles

W. Tecumseh Fitch
Opinion piece: Four principles of bio-musicology
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140091; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0091 (published 2 February 2015)
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Laurel J. Trainor
Research article: The origins of music in auditory scene analysis and the roles of evolution and culture in musical creation
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140089; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0089 (published 2 February 2015)
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Marisa Hoeschele, Hugo Merchant, Yukiko Kikuchi, Yuko Hattori, and Carel ten Cate
Review article: Searching for the origins of musicality across species
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140094; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0094 (published 2 February 2015)
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Bjorn Merker, Iain Morley, and Willem Zuidema
Review article: Five fundamental constraints on theories of the origins of music
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140095; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0095 (published 2 February 2015)

Sandra E. Trehub, Judith Becker, and Iain Morley
Review article: Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140096; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0096 (published 2 February 2015)

Isabelle Peretz, Dominique Vuvan, Marie-Élaine Lagrois, and Jorge L. Armony
Review article: Neural overlap in processing music and speech
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140090; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0090 (published 2 February 2015)

Bruno Gingras, Henkjan Honing, Isabelle Peretz, Laurel J. Trainor, and Simon E. Fisher
Review article: Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140092; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0092 (published 2 February 2015)

Hugo Merchant, Jessica Grahn, Laurel Trainor, Martin Rohrmeier, and W. Tecumseh Fitch
Review article: Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140093; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0093 (published 2 February 2015)

Martin Rohrmeier, Willem Zuidema, Geraint A. Wiggins, and Constance Scharff
Review article: Principles of structure building in music, language and animal song
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140097; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0097 (published 2 February 2015)

David Huron
Opinion piece: Affect induction through musical sounds: an ethological perspective
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140098; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0098 (published 2 February 2015)

Geraint A. Wiggins, Peter Tyack, Constance Scharff, and Martin Rohrmeier
Opinion piece: The evolutionary roots of creativity: mechanisms and motivations
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2015 370 20140099; doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0099 (published 2 February 2015)