There has recently been a growing interest to investigate rhythm cognition in nonhuman animals as a way of tracking the evolutionary origins of human musicality - i.e., the ability to perceive, enjoy and produce music. During the last two decades, there has been an explosion of theoretical proposals aimed at explaining why and how humans have evolved into musical beings, and the empirical comparative research has also gained momentum. In this paper, we focus on the rhythmic component of musicality, and review functional and mechanistic theoretical proposals on abilities regarded as prerequisites for perceiving and producing rhythmic structures similar to those encountered in music. For each theoretical proposal we also review supporting and contradictory empirical findings. To acknowledge that the evolutionary study of musicality requires an interdisciplinary approach, our review strives to cover perspectives and findings from as many disciplines as possible. We conclude with a research agenda that highlights relevant, yet thus far neglected topics in the comparative and evolutionary study of rhythm cognition. Specifically, we call for a widened research focus that will include additional rhythmic abilities besides entrainment, additional channels of perception and production besides the auditory and vocal ones, and a systematic focus on the functional contexts in which rhythmic signals spontaneously occur. With this expanded focus, and drawing from systematic observation and experimentation anchored in multiple disciplines, animal research is bound to generate many important insights into the adaptive pressures that forged the component abilities of human rhythm cognition and their (socio-)cognitive and (neuro-)biological underpinnings.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2023.180001
T. Zentall, Ralph R. Miller
{"title":"In Celebration of the 30th Meeting of the Conference on Comparative Cognition","authors":"T. Zentall, Ralph R. Miller","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2023.180001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2023.180001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128821227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2023.180005
L. Huber, Lucrezia Lonardo, C. Völter
{"title":"Eye Tracking in Dogs: Achievements and Challenges","authors":"L. Huber, Lucrezia Lonardo, C. Völter","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2023.180005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2023.180005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125668182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2023.180002
Valeria V. González, Alicia Izquierdo, A. Blaisdell
{"title":"Theoretical Mechanisms of Paradoxical Choices Involving Information","authors":"Valeria V. González, Alicia Izquierdo, A. Blaisdell","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2023.180002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2023.180002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129331279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2023.180007
{"title":"A Letter From the Incoming Editor","authors":"","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2023.180007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2023.180007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122001977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2023.180004
ManyDogs Project ManyDogs Project, D. Alberghina, Emily E. Bray, D. Buchsbaum, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere, Julia Espinosa, Gitanjali E. Gnanadesikan, C. A. Guran, Elizabeth Hare, Daniel J. Horschler, L. Huber, V. Kuhlmeier, E. MacLean, Madeline H. Pelgrim, Bryan Perez, Dana Ravid-Schurr, Liza G. Rothkoff, Courtney L. Sexton, Zachary A. Silver, J. Stevens
{"title":"ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition","authors":"ManyDogs Project ManyDogs Project, D. Alberghina, Emily E. Bray, D. Buchsbaum, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere, Julia Espinosa, Gitanjali E. Gnanadesikan, C. A. Guran, Elizabeth Hare, Daniel J. Horschler, L. Huber, V. Kuhlmeier, E. MacLean, Madeline H. Pelgrim, Bryan Perez, Dana Ravid-Schurr, Liza G. Rothkoff, Courtney L. Sexton, Zachary A. Silver, J. Stevens","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2023.180004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2023.180004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124081327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2015.100006
R. Weisman, M. Bouton, M. Spetch, E. Wasserman
faculty members were encouraged to do likewise. However, in practice, faculty give 10-minute talks, or, less commonly, 20-minute talks. Other more pragmatic, but important, decisions dealt with providing snacks and drinks at the meetings and when to schedule sessions. Most important, the steering committee discussed what the meeting was going to be about. They decided that CO3 was to be about comparative cognition in the broadest sense, with encouragement to report on the standard laboratory species and on more naturally occurring species. By defining cognition broadly, they were able to avoid the squabbles then current between more behaviorally oriented and more cognitively oriented scientists. CO3 first met March 17–20, 1994, at the Holiday Inn on the Ocean in Melbourne. Slightly fewer than three dozen scientists attended, but CO3 was off to a promising start. The attendees liked the meeting, and more than half said they would attend often if not every year. In those early years, more pelicans attended, and more alcohol was consumed. Noise issues in the normal meeting rooms prompted the hotel to move us to a swank, oceanfront, two-story, glass-walled penthouse. For a time, the luxurious penthouse was perfect for meetings and great evening parties. But eventually rising room rates and noise from the Holiday Inn’s oceanfront entertainment drove CO3 a few miles north to the Hilton Hotel, which served CO3 well until the This memoir is a brief history of the founding of the Conference on Comparative Cognition and the Comparative Cognition Society. The text represents the best recollections of the authors, who together founded the Conference. In the 1980s, Ron Weisman visited Melbourne, Florida, regularly to enjoy the warm weather in March and to visit friends at Florida Tech. Over time, he began thinking about sharing the Melbourne experience with other comparative cognition scientists. He discussed the idea with Mark Bouton, Marcia Spetch, and Ed Wasserman in the late 1980s: it is probably no accident that all four taught on campuses that experience harsh winters. By the early 1990s, the group began planning the meetings in earnest. Together, all four became known as the steering committee—or “steers” for short. The steering committee began meeting as a group and in pairs over the next few years to plan the conference. They decided on a name (the Conference on Comparative Cognition), and Ed Wasserman provided the acronym, CO3. Suzy Bouton did the wonderful logo. The committee discussed the lengths of the talks (5, 10, and 20 minutes). Mark Bouton suggested including very short, 5-minute talks, borrowed from the Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Park City, Utah). At CO3, the 5-minute talks evolved into “spoken posters,” complete in themselves, practiced, polished, and informative. Graduate students were allowed to present these brief talks from the beginning, and Ronald G. Weisman
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2022.170002
Bernhard Wagner, M. Hoeschele
{"title":"The Links Between Pitch, Timbre, Musicality, and Social Bonding From Cross-Species Research","authors":"Bernhard Wagner, M. Hoeschele","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2022.170002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2022.170002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131117228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2022.170004
Anton Baotic, Beth Brady, E. Ramos, Angela S. Stoeger
Vocal production learning is the ability to modify a vocal output in response to auditory experience. It is essential for human speech production and language acquisition. Vocal learning evolved independently several times in vertebrates, indicating evolutionary pressure in favor of this trait. This enables cross-species comparative analysis to be used to test evolutionary hypotheses. Humans share this ability with a versatile but limited group of species: songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds, bats, cetaceans, seals, and elephants. Although case studies demonstrate that African savanna and Asian elephants are capable of heterospecific imitation, including imitation of human words, our under standing of both the underlying mechanisms and the adaptive relevance within the elephant’s natural communication system is limited. Even though comparing phylogenetically distant species is intriguing, it is also worthwhile to investigate whether and to what extent learned vocal behavior is apparent in species phylogenetically close to an established vocal learner. For elephants, this entails determining whether their living relatives share their special ability for (complex) vocal learning. In this review, we address vocal learning in Elephantidea and Sirenia, sister groups within the Paenungulata. So far, no research has been done on vocal learning in Sirenians. Because of their aquatic lifestyle, vocalization structure, and evolutionary relationship to elephants, we believe Sirenians are a particularly interesting group to study. This review covers the most important acoustic aspects related to vocal learning in elephants, manatees, and dugongs, as well as knowledge gaps that must be filled for one to fully comprehend why vocal learning evolved (or did not) in these distinctive but phylogenetically related taxa. intellectual into the design of Figure 5, illustrating the manatee and elephant vocal apparatus.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2019.140011
Michael R.W. Dawson
{"title":"Probability Learning by Perceptrons and People","authors":"Michael R.W. Dawson","doi":"10.3819/ccbr.2019.140011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3819/ccbr.2019.140011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422333,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128934586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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