September 5th - Japan & Online

13:30-15:30 (JST)

13:30-13:40

Introduction

Rie Asano

Institute of Musicology, University of Cologne, Germany

13:40-14:00

Genomes capture signals of cultural evolution in language and music

Hiromi Matsumae

Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University, Japan

14:00-14:20

Cultural and biological evolution of musical and linguistic diversity

Patrick E. Savage

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University SFC, Japan

14:20-14:40

The cultural evolution of systematicity unites music and language: evidence from iterated learning experiments

Simon Kirby

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

14:40-15:00

The rise and fall of synchronous musical behavior: implications for the evolution of musicality

Aniruddh D. Patel

Department of Psychology, Tufts University, USA

15:00-15:15 Flash presentations

Cultural transmission of traditional songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Yuri Nishikawa & Yasuo Ihara

Linguistic tone as exaptation from music in evolution

Edward Ruoyang Shi & Elizabeth Qing Zhang

Listeners’ perception of music and speech

Lauren Fink, Madita Hörster, David Poeppel, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, & Pauline Larrouy-Maestri

Music-Readiness and Entrainment: On the Embodied and Interactive Origins of the Human Music Capacity

Runa Ya & Nils-Benjamin Hahn

Language and Music in the Crib: Early cross-domain effects of experience on rhythmic entrainment and categorical perception of prominence

Alan Langus, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Sandrien van Ommen, & Thierry Nazzi

15:15-15:30 General discussions