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SUMMARY:Emotional Communication in Primates:  Music to Their Ears?\, C
 haos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Chuck Snowdon\, UW-Madison\, Dept. of
  Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Vocal communication in nonhuman animals is thought to comm
 unicate the emotional state of the caller and provide information abou
 t the caller's behavior. An alternative view is that animal signals in
 duce emotional states in listeners. In support of this alternative are
  the prosodic features of speech that humans use to communicate with i
 nfants ("parentese") or their animals ("doggeral"). Building on this i
 dea\, my collaborator\, David Teie\, a musician and composer and I hav
 e hypothesized that music evolved from emotional communication and is 
 a powerful means to communicate emotions. We have hypothesized several
  acoustic features that are emotional universals and have tested these
  using music-naive cotton-top tamarins. Since tamarins communicate wit
 h higher pitch and faster tempo than humans\, we also hypothesized tha
 t they would be indifferent to human based music\, but would instead r
 espond emotionally to music composed at their frequency range and temp
 o. Tamarins did show appropriate emotional responses to music composed
  for them by David Teie and were generally unresponsive to human music
 . The results have several implications: emotional aspects of music ma
 y have a long evolutionary history\, animal vocalizations may serve to
  induce emotional contagion in listeners and\, although musical aspect
 s of emotions follow universal principles they actual music tested mus
 t be appropriate to the vocal range and tempo of the species tested.<b
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