Play that Monkey Music

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Music Is An Inherited Plus Paloved Trait
A. "Play that monkey music"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46942/title/Play_that_monkey_music
Man-made music inspired by tamarin calls seems to alter the primates’ emotions, a new study suggests.
B. Music is both an inherited plus a Pavloved trait, characteristic
Hearing plus memory are evolutionarily culturally selected for survival. Their combinations are both consequences of remembered emotions and - via a natural Pavlovian process - also inspirators of emotions.
C. Also "Why Music Touches Us", Nov 2005
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071210/full/news.2007.359.html
My conjecture about music 'touching-moving' us:
Music is a human cultural-artifactual elaboration of creatures' vocal communication which is an extension-elaboration of >24 wks-old in-womb fetus' and of newborns' intimate safe-coddle-sooth experiences. Both 'touch' and 'hear' senses are founded on mechanical sensing processes involving in-cell ions leakage forming electrical action potentials interpreted neurologically.
I suggest-conjecture that the same neurological constellation may be handling both 'touch' and 'hear' senses, being of commom mechanisms and differing essentially only in switch-on modes, and that this evolves in all vocal creatures in conjunction with in-womb safe-feeling, and later with baby codling-handling and vocal soothing-communicating, and later also with intimate emotional implications. Hence music has 'engulfing-touching-emotional' connotation and personal music orientation has childhood-ethnic rootings.
D. IMO a proper elucidation of music-memory-emotion complex in unavoidably long,
since it should extend from fetal through adolescennt phases.
Dov Henis
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