Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music, than our evolutionary relative the macaque monkey. The study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, highlights the promise of Sound Health, a joint project between the NIH and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that aims to understand the role of music in health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news