the origin of music in the brain

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Music serves as a natural and non-invasive intervention for patients with severe neurological disorders to promote long-term memory, social interaction and communication. However, there is currently no plausible explanation of its neural basis for why and how music affects physical and psychosocial responses.

Origins of music perception in humans may have their foundation in animal communication calls, as evidenced here in non-human primates. Many speech sounds and animal vocalizations, for instance, contain components, commonly referred to as complex tones, which consist of a fundamental frequency (f0) and higher harmonics.

Using electrophysiological recording techniques to study the neuronal activities in the auditory cortex of awake monkeys, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center's have shown neurons tuned to the fundamental frequencies and harmonic sounds, and such neural mechanisms of harmonic processing lay close to tonotopically organized auditory areas. They presented their findings at the 39th annual meeting Society of Neuroscience.

"The understanding of neural mechanism of 'innate' music features in non-human primates will facilitate an improved understanding of music perception in the human nervous system," explains Yuki Kikuchi, PhD, a research associate in the department of physiology and biophysics. "This will allow a neurobiological framework from which to understand the basis of the effectiveness of music therapeutic interventions."

[Lilybitch]

I have to agree with you, But don't you think, Music and Love are something similar, Whenever you think with heart?, isn't music is a feeling?

[S. Earl Martin]

The tones on the musical scale corralate to the vibration of the planets. Also the tones of the low notes vibrate the pelvic bones and that is why some people have thought music was a sexual thing. It might be on some level, but it doesn't overide free will. On a personal level I have heard music inside my head for as long as I can remember. Either music by other people I have heard before, or music I have written myself. I hear music in the hum of a fan or the sound of a motor. I have used the sound of different things to work as the back beat to a number of songs I have written. The music I hear is appart and seperate from the other sound or sound's.

As far as animals making sounds. I agree that each animal makes a distinct sound or sounds so as to be recognized by the others in its group. Weather this lead to the process of making music is possible, but would be impossible to determine at this time. I would think another possibility is that music was created to impress the opposite sex. When I was the lead singer in a bad I had women who wanted to mate with me just because of my ability to sing. Certain music has been shown to have a possitive effect on plants and animals. "Music sooth's the savage beast" Peace!

[hortonpilot]

I wish i had delved into this more in early years, i was very curious about the links between music , painting and literature , because i felt there was some kind of "unified theory".
I was fortunate to who have one lecturer who was working on structure in writing but he i think now got me thinking.
The theory of aesthetics interested me a lot and i now see it linked by a something that which is more akin to music/rythm than the text or details.
So many things are like a pulse or a dance  perhaps?


Horton