Chimps Prefer African Music To The Western Kind

How bad is western music? Chimps in a study published by the  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition preferred silence - yet they liked music from Africa. And music from India. What is the reason for that? Music in the east is structured differently, notation is everything from Swara Kalana to Chôngganbo, but African music is not all that different. Why would chimps like it more? It may be tempo. The current findings say this may be the first to show that they display a preference for particular rhythmic patterns. If the authors aren't sure, none of the rest of the world can be. read more

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