The Biology of Music

Andrea Ravignani is Professor of Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Honorary Professor of Neuroscience and Music at Aarhus University, Denmark. The interdisciplinary and international research laboratory he directs investigates the (neuro)biological, evolutionary and psychological bases of music, working with humans and many other species. He has been awarded the "Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science" and research funding from the European Research Council, Max Planck Society, and Human Frontier Science Programme.

• SECTION I. MUSICALITY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, IN OTHER SPECIES AND IN ALGORITHMS 1: Henkjan Honing: Musical Animals: Are We? Can There Be? 2: Alex South, Emily Doolittle, and Buddhamas Pralle Kriengwatana: Musicking in Humans and Other Animals 3: Maya Gratier and Louise Goupil: The Ontogeny of Music 4: Steven Jan and Robin Laney: The Synthetic Biology of Music SECTION II. THE (PALEO)ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF MUSICALITY 5: Anton Killin and Peter Hiscock: The Phylogeny of Musicality: Traits Comprising and Enabling the Hominin Musicality Phenotype 6: David M. Schruth and Niels Chr. Hansen: The Anthropology of Musicality 7: Tudor Popescu and Felix Haiduk: Are There Biologically Based Musical Universals? 8: Mason Youngblood and Fabian C. Moss: The History of Music: Approaches from Cultural Evolution and Musicology SECTION III. HYPOTHESES AND MODELS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC AND MUSICALITY 9: Gary Tomlinson and Günter Wagner: Systems Evolution and the Emergence of Music 10: Bernardino Fantini and Paolo Tortiglione: A Biocultural Analysis of the Components of Music and Their Specific Emotional Power 11: Luis Alejandro Villanueva and Gerd B. Müller: An Evo-Devo Model for the Evolution of Music 12: Ellen Dissanayake: Did Human Musicality Evolve from Ancestral Mother-Infant Early Interactions via Ceremonial Ritual and Its Arts? An Interdisciplinary Proposal