{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["108(37)"],"submitter":["Tierney AT"],"pubmed_abstract":["Human song exhibits great structural diversity, yet certain aspects of melodic shape (how pitch is patterned over time) are widespread. These include a predominance of arch-shaped and descending melodic contours in musical phrases, a tendency for phrase-final notes to be relatively long, and a bias toward small pitch movements between adjacent notes in a melody [Huron D (2006) Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)]. What is the origin of these features? We hypothesize that they stem from motor constraints on song production (i.e., the energetic efficiency of their underlying motor actions) rather than being innately specified. One prediction of this hypothesis is that any animals subject to similar motor constraints on song will exhibit simi"],"journal":["Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"],"pagination":["15510-5"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3174665"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The motor origins of human and avian song structure."],"pmcid":["PMC3174665"],"pubmed_authors":["Tierney AT","Russo FA","Patel AD"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The motor origins of human and avian song structure.","description":"Human song exhibits great structural diversity, yet certain aspects of melodic shape (how pitch is patterned over time) are widespread. These include a predominance of arch-shaped and descending melodic contours in musical phrases, a tendency for phrase-final notes to be relatively long, and a bias toward small pitch movements between adjacent notes in a melody [Huron D (2006) Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)]. What is the origin of these features? We hypothesize that they stem from motor constraints on song production (i.e., the energetic efficiency of their underlying motor actions) rather than being innately specified. One prediction of this hypothesis is that any animals subject to similar motor constraints on song will exhibit simi","dates":{"release":"2011-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2011 Sep","modification":"2025-05-29T22:12:38.98Z","creation":"2025-05-29T22:12:38.98Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3174665","cross_references":{"pubmed":["21876156"],"doi":["10.1073/pnas.1103882108"]}}