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"Taking a perspective motivated by ecological acoustics, we will then gradually work backward in evolutionary history to bring into view increasingly more basic constituents of auditory perception that became particularly apparent as “ basic expression,” and will connect these to more elementary dimensions of meaning, whose deepest roots ultimately can be seen in physics, reflecting very fundamental laws that connect physical and geometrical properties of our environment to sound characteristics in a rather universal manner, invariant over a wide range of conditions and time scales, so that evolution found ample occasion and time to imprint these regularities deeply into the brains of our predecessors and ourselves."
"...the laws of physics themselves can be viewed as a kind of context information for extracting meaning from sound events. Compared to other contexts, the context given by physical laws was stable all the time, so that evolution had ample time to adapt our brains extremely well to the ways how physics links sounds and their causes."
"pitch at the extremal ends of the frequency spectrum reinforces the threatening character of intense sounds and the comforting character of weak sounds."
Humphrey, N. (2000). The privatization of sensation. In C. Hayes & L. Huber (Eds.), The Evolution of Cognition. (pp. 241–252). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
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References Thomas Reid (1785) that perception is the acknowledgement of something external but sensation only references a sentient being (cf von Hemholtz in Erlmann) (Erlmann 2000).
Huron, D. (2001). Is music an evolutionary adaptation? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930(1), 43–61.
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Symes, L. B. (2014). Community composition affects the shape of mate response functions. Evolution, 68(7), 2005–2013.
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Symes, L. B., Ayres, M. P., Cowdery, C. P., & Costello, R. A. (2014). Signal diversification in oecanthus tree crickets is shaped by energetic, morphometric, and acoustic trade-offs. Evolution, 68(7), 2005–2013.
