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Signaling games and music as a credible signal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Massimo Lumaca Open the ORCID record for Massimo Lumaca [Opens in a new window] ,
Elvira Brattico Open the ORCID record for Elvira Brattico [Opens in a new window]  and
Giosuè Baggio Open the ORCID record for Giosuè Baggio [Opens in a new window]
Massimo Lumaca
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark massimo.lumaca@clin.au.dk; elvira.brattico@clin.au.dk
Elvira Brattico
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark massimo.lumaca@clin.au.dk; elvira.brattico@clin.au.dk
Giosuè Baggio
Affiliation:
Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7941 Trondheim, Norway. giosue.baggio@ntnu.no
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Abstract

The argument by Mehr et al. that music emerged and evolved culturally as a credible signal is convincing, but it lacks one essential ingredient: a model of signaling behavior that supports the main hypothesis theoretically and empirically. We argue that signaling games can help us explain how musical structures emerge as population-level phenomena, through sender–receiver signaling interactions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e107
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