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  1. Joint origins of speech and music: testing evolutionary hypotheses on modern humans.Bart de Boer & Andrea Ravignani - 2021 - Semiotica 2021 (239):169-176.
    How music and speech evolved is a mystery. Several hypotheses on their origins, including one on their joint origins, have been put forward but rarely tested. Here we report and comment on the first experiment testing the hypothesis that speech and music bifurcated from a common system. We highlight strengths of the reported experiment, point out its relatedness to animal work, and suggest three alternative interpretations of its results. We conclude by sketching a future empirical programme extending this work.
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  • The Paradox of Isochrony in the Evolution of Human Rhythm.Andrea Ravignani & Guy Madison - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8:280885.
    Isochrony is crucial to the rhythm of human music. Some neural, behavioral and anatomical traits underlying rhythm perception and production are shared with a broad range of species. These may either have a common evolutionary origin, or have evolved into similar traits under different evolutionary pressures. Other traits underlying rhythm are rare across species, only found in humans and few other animals. Isochrony, or stable periodicity, is common to most human music, but isochronous behaviors are also found in many species. (...)
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  • The channel capacity of multilevel linguistic features constrains speech comprehension.Jérémy Giroud, Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau, François Pellegrino & Benjamin Morillon - 2023 - Cognition 232 (C):105345.
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