Björn Merker
Biographic Data
| ID | 185747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Björn Merker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Björn |
| FAMILY NAME | Merker |
| SIGNATURE | MERKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2941-6133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metrically Structured Time and Entrainment
This chapter focuses on the perceptual mechanisms that enable and facilitate entrainment to the temporally regular sounds of music. It discusses possible unifying principles underlying functions of entrainment in the action range for human movement, where entrainment occurs most readily and with greatest precision. The chapter reviews timing constraints imposed by our biology and describes the metrical organization of time that is employed by mus…
Consciousness without a cerebral cortex
A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain – spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to clinical data – is reviewed for its bearing on conceptions of the neural organization of consciousness. A novel principle relating target selection, action selection, and motivation to one another, as a means to optimize integration for action in real time, is introduced. W…
Hostile Presenting in Captive Gibbons
The liabilities of mobility
Music
William Abler identified a common principle of pattern generation underlying the open-ended diversity of forms exhibited by chemistry, genetics and human language. He named this generative principle “the particulate principle of self-diversifying systems”. In passing Abler mentioned music as an instance of the principle, but did not develop the idea. Most extant music does not use the sound content of the continua of frequency (pitch) and time di…
Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion
2001). Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 100-104
Music and the Rett Disorder
Observations in the course of music therapy as well as informal reports by relatives and other caregivers indicate that music constitutes a significant category of experience for people with Rett syndrome, despite the severe cognitive, communicative and social disability produced by this neurological developmental disorder. Since there is a lack of systematic information about the role of music in the lives of persons with Rett syndrome, we have …
A New Theory of Music Origins
(2000). A New Theory of Music Origins: the Language Auxiliary Hypothesis. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 28-31
The Origins of Music
The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psycholog…
Synchronous chorusing and the origins of music
The surprising fit between the basic pattern of hominid sociality (inferred from shared features of human and chimpanzee sociality) and one of the models developed to explain the evolution of synchronous chorusing in insects suggests that synchronous chorusing played a role in the late Miocene separation of the hominid ancestors of humans from our common ancestor with the chimpanzee. A detailed evolutionary scenario for this process is presented …
A Note on Hunting and Hominid Origins
Music and the Rett Disorder
Observations in the course of music therapy as well as informal reports by relatives and other caregivers indicate that music constitutes a significant category of experience for people with Rett syndrome, despite the severe cognitive, communicative and social disability produced by this neurological developmental disorder. Since there is a lack of systematic information about the role of music in the lives of persons with Rett syndrome, we have …
A New Theory of Music Origins
(2000). A New Theory of Music Origins: the Language Auxiliary Hypothesis. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 28-31
A Note on Hunting and Hominid Origins
Hostile Presenting in Captive Gibbons
A Note on Hunting and Hominid Origins
The Origins of Music
The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psycholog…
Synchronous chorusing and the origins of music
The surprising fit between the basic pattern of hominid sociality (inferred from shared features of human and chimpanzee sociality) and one of the models developed to explain the evolution of synchronous chorusing in insects suggests that synchronous chorusing played a role in the late Miocene separation of the hominid ancestors of humans from our common ancestor with the chimpanzee. A detailed evolutionary scenario for this process is presented …
A New Theory of Music Origins
(2000). A New Theory of Music Origins: the Language Auxiliary Hypothesis. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 28-31
Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion
2001). Music Origins – From a Forum Discussion. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 100-104
Music and the Rett Disorder
Observations in the course of music therapy as well as informal reports by relatives and other caregivers indicate that music constitutes a significant category of experience for people with Rett syndrome, despite the severe cognitive, communicative and social disability produced by this neurological developmental disorder. Since there is a lack of systematic information about the role of music in the lives of persons with Rett syndrome, we have …
Music
William Abler identified a common principle of pattern generation underlying the open-ended diversity of forms exhibited by chemistry, genetics and human language. He named this generative principle “the particulate principle of self-diversifying systems”. In passing Abler mentioned music as an instance of the principle, but did not develop the idea. Most extant music does not use the sound content of the continua of frequency (pitch) and time di…
The liabilities of mobility
Hostile Presenting in Captive Gibbons
Consciousness without a cerebral cortex
A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain – spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to clinical data – is reviewed for its bearing on conceptions of the neural organization of consciousness. A novel principle relating target selection, action selection, and motivation to one another, as a means to optimize integration for action in real time, is introduced. W…
Metrically Structured Time and Entrainment
This chapter focuses on the perceptual mechanisms that enable and facilitate entrainment to the temporally regular sounds of music. It discusses possible unifying principles underlying functions of entrainment in the action range for human movement, where entrainment occurs most readily and with greatest precision. The chapter reviews timing constraints imposed by our biology and describes the metrical organization of time that is employed by mus…
Psychology (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (4 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (3 works) · Evolutionary biology (3 works) · Literature (3 works)