What is it about?
Why music so strongly affects us? Why this ability to be affected by sounds emerged in evolution? Why we enjoy sad music , which cannot be listened without tears? Knowledge could be difficult to accept, unrequited love, betrayal by friends and loved one, knowledge about deaths. Music helps us to overcome these difficulties , continue to learn, and to evolve culture.
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Why is it important?
Music is a mystery. It was a mystery to Aristotle, Kant, Darwin, and still is a mystery to contemporary musicologists. Here is finally a scientific explanation of the mystery of music. Theoretical explanations are confirmed by experiments.
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It is a breakthrough discovery that solved a millennial mystery.
Prof Leonid Perlovsky
Harvard University
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This page is a summary of: Origin of music and embodied cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00538.
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