Evolution or culture, but music may soothe the savage breast. Commentary on Leonid Perlovsky, Musical emotions: Functions, origins, evolution

摘要

Perlovsky carries on the welcome trend in neuroscience of respecting emotion as a partner with cognition (e.g., [1–4]). He makes the intriguing suggestion that music plays a particularly privileged role among all the arts in ensuring the balance in individuals between emotion and cognition, and in societies between what he calls differentiation and synthesis.