Jan Simson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1801469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Simson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Simson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9406-7761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies
Universality and diversity in human song
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, and religiosity. There is more variation in musical behavior within soci…
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
Universality and diversity in human song
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, and religiosity. There is more variation in musical behavior within soci…
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Psychology (4 works) · Musical (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Formality (2 works) · Infant Health and Development (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Melody (2 works)