Source note · R100
Music Evolution in the Laboratory: Cultural Transmission Meets Neurophysiology
Laboratory transmission studies offer a bounded way to study the evolution of musical systems.
- Setting
- Related music & arts
- Kind of evidence
- Reviews & synthesis
- Review extent
- Appraisal and selected source sections checked
What was studied
A conceptual review connects artificial musical-system transmission experiments with auditory perception, memory and neurophysiology.
What it contributes
Lumaca, Ravignani and Baggio review how artificial musical systems may adapt to perceptual and memory constraints; discussed MMN results concern laboratory transmission chains, not band participation.
Where the evidence stops
Conceptual review centered on artificial laboratory tone systems and transmission chains; ecological and cross-cultural transferability is limited. Not evidence of band-participation outcomes.
About this review
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Source note updated September 9, 2026. Read our approach to evidence.