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| Title |
The evolution of music and human social capability
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnins.2014.00292 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jay Schulkin, Greta B. Raglan |
| Abstract |
Music is a core human experience and generative processes reflect cognitive capabilities. Music is often functional because it is something that can promote human well-being by facilitating human contact, human meaning, and human imagination of possibilities, tying it to our social instincts. Cognitive systems also underlie musical performance and sensibilities. Music is one of those things that we do spontaneously, reflecting brain machinery linked to communicative functions, enlarged and diversified across a broad array of human activities. Music cuts across diverse cognitive capabilities and resources, including numeracy, language, and space perception. In the same way, music intersects with cultural boundaries, facilitating our "social self" by linking our shared experiences and intentions. This paper focuses on the intersection between the neuroscience of music, and human social functioning to illustrate the importance of music to human behaviors. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 59 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 14% |
| Turkey | 3 | 5% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Greece | 2 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 25 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 50 | 85% |
| Scientists | 7 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 193 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 186 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 37 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 15% |
| Researcher | 15 | 8% |
| Professor | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 28 | 15% |
| Unknown | 46 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 36 | 19% |
| Arts and Humanities | 24 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 24 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 37 | 19% |
| Unknown | 48 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 105. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 February 2024.
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#406,786
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Outputs from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#173
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#3,825
of 260,483 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neuroscience
#2
of 112 outputs
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