Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex Avian display

Dalziell, Anastasia; Peters, Richard; Cockburn, Andrew; Dorland, Alexandra; Maisey, Alex; Magrath, Robert D

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Dance choreography is coordinated with song repertoire in a complex Avian display

Date

2013

Authors

Dalziell, Anastasia

Peters, Richard

Cockburn, Andrew

Dorland, Alexandra

Maisey, Alex

Magrath, Robert D

Publisher

Cell Press

Abstract

All human cultures have music and dance [1, 2], and the two activities are so closely integrated that many languages use just one word to describe both [1, 3]. Recent research points to a deep cognitive connection between music and dance-like movements in