O ewolucyjnych źródłach niektórych muzycznych preferencji estetycznych

• Authors: Piotr Podlipniak

Title variants

EN

The Evolutionary Sources of Some Human Musical Aesthetic Preferences

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Human musical aesthetic preferences differ significantly. People vary in this respect depending on culture in which they were brought up and on their individual experiences. The awareness of this differentiation was one of the reasons for which these aesthetic preferences were considered as conditioned only by culture. After cognitive science became interested in art, the aesthetic preferences have been explained by seeing the aesthetic assessment of stimuli as related to the evolutionary sources of human aesthetic tendencies. The contemporary knowledge of music processing by the nervous system and of musical skills development indicates that there are also some ubiquitous tendencies in the aesthetic assessment of music. The purpose of the current paper is to present preferences for tonal music and to explain their origin.

Keywords

EN

musical aesthetic preferences; cognitive science; evolutionary sources; nervous system; musical skills

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Rocznik Kognitywistyczny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 167-174

Dates

online

2012-06-29

Contributors

author

Piotr Podlipniak

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843895RK.12.020.0424