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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 29

    You can take the test yourself (bottom of the news story). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/music-may-transcend-cultural-boundaries-to-become-universally-human/ … via @Harvard

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      2. Edward Mercer‏ @em357907 Jan 29
        Replying to @sapinker @Harvard

        Really interesting. 4/4 and I expect that's a very common result.

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      3. Dan Garfield‏ @danlistensto Jan 29
        Replying to @em357907 @sapinker @Harvard

        yes, though they picked songs that had a lot of clues besides the musical structure as to what they were. The love song was a duet between a man and a woman. The lullaby was a mother singing in a high pitch lilting tone. The healing song had a rattle. The dance song had drums.

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      2. Josep Bofill‏ @JosepBofillP Jan 29
        Replying to @sapinker @Harvard

        3/4.not bad

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      1. Kriteesh Parashar‏ @decodebond Jan 31
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        sir, I think if we dissect more, it starts boiling down to syllables uttered per verse (meter), tempo (esp. for dance peaking at 128 bpm) and onomatopoeia-esque choices of syllables (esp. for lullabies )

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      1. Josué‏ @arcarajoportort Jan 29
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        The best example of music being universalhttps://youtu.be/ne6tB2KiZuk 

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum Jan 29
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        Harvard discovers the clef.

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry Jan 29
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        "The findings ran counter to expert expectations." These "experts" were probably not modernists.

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry Jan 29
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        “Regardless of what lies behind our instincts for art, those instincts bestow it with a transcendence of time, place, and culture.... a universal human aesthetic really can be discerned beneath the variation across cultures.” —Steven Pinker

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      1. Kate‏ @Katepa2018 Jan 29
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        Isn't this a given? Not sure why a study was necessary.

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      1. Culpability Jones‏ @ShineboxHukster Jan 29
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        The concept of a universal shared humanity within our species is a white supremacist construct.

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      1. S K Ditta‏ @SKDitta Jan 29
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        Thank you. Interesting. Some of the clues, I found, were coded into the songs to elicit human intuition.pic.twitter.com/TBVHbKZLrb

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      1. Anabel‏ @uebereuropean Jan 29
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        4/4. This is fascinating.

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