Psychology 3950F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Cave Painting, Steven Pinker, Auditory Cortex
10 Apr 2018
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Pinker music is useless, music is a technology and not an evo adaptation. Music is auditory cheesecake, just good sounding sound. Music is not mainstream like language, vision, reasoning, ps in cog sci. Why we exp music on a daily basis. Pinker, and less asscecible to those without training. Is it uniqly human is it nonhuman animals. First cave art depicting dancing - 9000 years ago. So music has a long history speaking in terms of human culture not evo history. Mood enhacement feeling sad sad songs. Personal and social identity for musicans is a key part of their life. Music is for chamring the opposite sex; bond to reproduce. Like a peacocks tail just to draw the opposite sex. Most wester music in the middle ages are practiced by monks. Tsi(cid:373)a(cid:374)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t figure out the differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the t(cid:449)o.
