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Sound sleep: Lullabies as a test case for the neurobiological effects of music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Miriam Akkermann Open the ORCID record for Miriam Akkermann [Opens in a new window] ,
Ugur Can Akkaya ,
Cagatay Demirel ,
Dirk Pflüger Open the ORCID record for Dirk Pflüger [Opens in a new window]  and
Martin Dresler Open the ORCID record for Martin Dresler [Opens in a new window]
Miriam Akkermann
Affiliation:
Institute of Art and Music, TU Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany. miriam.akkermann@tu-dresden.de u.c.akkaya@gmail.com https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ikm/das-institut/muwi
Ugur Can Akkaya
Affiliation:
Institute of Art and Music, TU Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany. miriam.akkermann@tu-dresden.de u.c.akkaya@gmail.com https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ikm/das-institut/muwi
Cagatay Demirel
Affiliation:
Donders Institute, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands. caghangir@gmail.com martin.dresler@donders.ru.nl; https://dreslerlab.org
Dirk Pflüger
Affiliation:
Systeme (IPVS), Universität Stuttgart, 70569, Germany. Dirk.Pflueger@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de; https://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/departments/sc/
Martin Dresler
Affiliation:
Donders Institute, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands. caghangir@gmail.com martin.dresler@donders.ru.nl; https://dreslerlab.org
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Abstract

Music is part of the cultural practice and, at the same time, is interwoven with biology through its effects on the brain and its likely evolutionary origin. Studies on music, however, are traditionally based on the humanities and often carried out in a purely historical context, without much input from neuroscience and biology. Here, we argue that lullabies are a particularly suited test case to study the biological versus cultural aspects of music.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e96
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Footnotes

Cagatay Demirel's name was misspelled in the original online version of this commentary. This has been corrected here and a corrigendum has been published.

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