Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune
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- dc.contributor.author Celma Miralles, Alexandre, 1991-
- dc.contributor.author Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-09-17T09:09:29Z
- dc.date.issued 2020
- dc.description.abstract The musical motives of a song emerge from the temporal arrangement of discrete tones. These tones normally have few durational values, and are organized in structured groups to create metrical patterns. In the present study we show that the ability to detect the rhythmic structure of a song, while ignoring surface changes, is also present in other species. We familiarized rats (Rattus norvegicus) with an excerpt of the Happy Birthday song. During test, we presented the animals with (i) the same excerpt of the familiarization, (ii) a constant-pitch version of the excerpt that reduced melodic intervals to only one tone (i.e., isotonic) but preserved rhythmic structure, and (iii) a rhythmically scrambled version of the excerpt that preserved the melodic intervals. The animals discriminated the rhythmically scrambled version from the versions that preserved the original rhythm. This demonstrates that rats were sensitive to at least some parts of the rhythmic structure of the tune. Together with previous findings, the present set of results suggests that the emergence of rhythmic musical universals might be based on principles shared with other species.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by a grant from the BIAL foundation (reference 13/18) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MEC) FPI grant BES-2014-070547.
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- dc.identifier.citation Celma-Miralles A, Toro JM. Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune. Psychon Bull Rev. 2020 May 14;27:694-9. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01739-2
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01739-2
- dc.identifier.issn 1069-9384
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45302
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Springer
- dc.relation.ispartof Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2020 May 14.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/BES-2014-070547
- dc.rights © Springer. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01739-2
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- dc.subject.keyword Temporal perception
- dc.subject.keyword Song discrimination
- dc.subject.keyword Rhythm
- dc.subject.keyword Comparative cognition
- dc.subject.keyword Rats
- dc.title Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune
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