Musical Tastes Are Cultural in Origin, Not ‘Hard-wired’ in the Brain, Study Suggests

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 12:31 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study of a remote Amazonian farming and foraging community suggests that musical tastes are cultural in origin rather than “hard-wired” in the brain. One of the authors of the study, published as the cover story in the leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature, is Alan Schultz, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of anthropology in Baylor’s […]

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