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People are, consciously or unconsciously, influenced a great deal by the music they listen to, be it happy, sad, jumpy, depressive, or mellow. Their response is almost immediate, and researchers have been curious to know exactly where this habit originated from for a long time. However, investigating this proved to be extremely difficult. Studies always hit a dead end, as primates, the obvious subjects for such investigations, seemed to prefer silence to human music. A new scientific effort has revealed that they, however, respond to monkey music accordingly. In a series of experiments, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Professor of Psychology Charles Snowdon, and musician David Teie, from the University of Maryland (UM), discovered that cotton-top tamarins responded very well to “music” made especially for them, by combining a number of call signals that the monkeys used in the wild. When human music was played in the cages, the “subjects” were unaffected, but !
their attention was solicited when the monkey sounds were played. Teie composed a number of 30-second clips especially for this research, using a diversified array of signals that had previously been recorded in the jungle. Two major emotions were conveyed via the songs, either fear and/or ...
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