This scientist is a neurobiologist at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego.
Who is Dr. Ani Patel?
100
German researcher Kathleen Wermke found that French newborn babies produced this melodic shape when crying.
What is rising?
100
According to researchers at Duke University, people all over the world respond to these three intervals.
What are fourth, fifth, and octave?
100
This British rock singer, who said he never reads the music and lyrics together before performing, worked with Larry Parsons on his studies in cognitive neuroscience.
Who is Jarvis Cocker?
100
Tom Fritz studied this African tribe in Cameroon to see if they connected certain emotions to certain kinds of music.
Who are the Mafa?
200
Isabelle Peretz from McGill University studied patients with this condition, the inability to recognize musical tones or to reproduce them. Four percent of the population has this condition.
What is amusia?
200
This term, used by Sandra Trehub, refers to the way mothers vocalize to their babies, an action found across cultures.
What is "Motherese"?
200
This kind of biology says that a behavioral or cognitive capacity is innate only if it gives humans "some advantage for adapting, surviving, and reproducing."
What is evolutionary?
200
Music, language and this may all be connected as forms of communication.
What is dance?
200
This American psychologist developed the theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
300
This skill is thought to have been evolved approximately 6000 years ago.
What is writing?
300
The fetus starts auditory learning in this trimester of gestation.
What is third?
300
One scientist started the debate about whether music or language came first by saying music is this, a "pleasurable offshoot of our linguistic ability."
What is auditory cheesecake?
300
Larry Parsons did the first study that examined this and the brain.
What is musical improvisation?
300
This part of the brain controls movement such as tapping the foot.
What is the motor cortex?
400
Music is thought to have developed this many years ago.
What is 500,000?
400
According to one neurobiologist, the way the brain processes this in music is similar to the way the brain processes it in language.
What is rhythm?
400
Duke researcher David Schwartz believes "Music ... is rooted in our experience of" this.
What is the natural world?
400
Larry Parsons' study found that the auditory and motor areas of the brain were activated when completing these.
What are sentences?
400
Music of a faster tempo causes this physical action to increase.
What is heart rate?
500
One patient who could not form words but could sing Happy Birthday has this condition, an inability to express or understand speech.
What is aphasia?
500
This part of the brain is known to be involved in language processing and is activated when creating a melody.
What is Broca's area?
500
This Harvard cognitive psychologist believes that music is not essential to our survival.
Who is Steven Pinker?
500
Generating this component of music activates more areas of the brain than generating language.
What is melody?
500
This is the ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections.