{"id":3726,"date":"2015-01-07T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:53:10","slug":"music-can-transcend-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/music-can-transcend-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Music can transcend culture<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3727\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3727\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3727\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Canada\u2019s research chair in ethnomusicology, Nathalie Fernando ,explains a listening exercise through an interpreter, to members of a Congolese pygmy tribe. (Photo credit: McGill University\/University of Montr\u00e9al)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada\u2019s research chair in ethnomusicology, Nathalie Fernando ,explains a listening exercise through an interpreter, to members of a Congolese pygmy tribe. (Photo credit: McGill University\/University of Montr\u00e9al)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Montreal hipsters\u2019 and Congolese pygmy tribe members react to some elements of music in the same way, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Forty Pygmies and 40 Canadians listened in pairs to 19 music excerpts (eight\u00a0Pygmy and 11 Western instrumental excerpts) and were asked to rate the songs (arousing or calming, positive or negative.) \u00a0Researchers found similarities in the answers of both groups.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The researchers\u00a0conclude that while cultural learning is still important to how we respond to music, it also has the ability to trigger a basic, universal response in humans.<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Images and music samples are available on demand.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/psychology\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Frontiers in psychology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>January\u00a07<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.mcgill.ca\/faculty\/mcadams.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen E. McAdams<\/a><\/span>, McGill University, Quebec<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musique.umontreal.ca\/personnel\/fernando_n.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nathalie Fernando<\/a><\/span>, University of\u00a0Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal hipsters\u2019 and Congolese pygmy tribe members react to some elements of music in the same way, according to a new study. Forty Pygmies and 40 Canadians listened in pairs to 19 music excerpts (eight\u00a0Pygmy and 11 Western instrumental excerpts) and were asked to rate the songs (arousing or calming, positive or negative.) \u00a0Researchers found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327],"tags":[1851,1647,1850],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","tag-anthropology","tag-human-behaviour","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fernando_with_Interpreter-v1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Y6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}