The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

The fetal environment provides the fetus with multiple potential sources of rhythmic
stimulation that are not present in the NICU. Maternal breathing, heartbeats, walking …

This theoretical paper elucidates the nature of educational technology and, in the process,
sheds light on a number of phenomena in educational systems, from the no-significant …

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the
human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species …

In this chapter we outline areas of musical processing that may be universal to humans.
Music here refers to temporally structured human activities, social and individual, in the …

What are we referring to when we use the word “improvisation”? The term is used in
innumerable ways, but always with the implicit assumption that there are acts that are …

It has been suggested that the basic building blocks of music mimic sounds of moving
humans, and because the brain was primed to exploit such sounds, they eventually became …

We contrast two related hypotheses of the evolution of dance: H1: Maternal bipedal walking
influenced the fetal experience of sound and associated movement patterns; H2: The human …

Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the
whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are also guided by …

Although the idea that pulse in music may be related to human pulse is ancient and has
recently been promoted by researchers (;), there has been no ordered delineation of the …