A project by Henkjan Honing and Bas Cornelissen
A 2021 issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences contains two target articles discussing the origins of musicality. Sam Mehr and colleagues argue that musicality originates in credible signaling, while Pat Savage and colleagues instead point to social bonding.
We asked the many commentators where they would position themselves in this debate, and visualized the result:
Visit the interactive visualization: bacor.github.io/bbs-commentaries/
- Data can be found in app/src/data. The responses are included as a .csv file; the metadata of all papers is dumped in a json file.