How did music happen? Part 2: “Spartans, Chimps & Neurons”
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How did music happen? Part 2: “Spartans, Chimps & Neurons”

Chimp listening to music

This is a part of a series of articles. Click here to go back to Part 1: “Digging”   The neural symphony It’s pretty obvious we can all perceive music as such and thus have something in our bodies which has the specific function of extracting and interpreting information in a musical form. To explore this notion further, we should first look at what happens in the grey blob that lives inside our head, called brain, when we listen to…