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Comment
. 2021 Sep 30:44:e66.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20001028.

Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction

Ian Cross  1
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Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction

Ian Cross. Behav Brain Sci. .

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Both papers - to different degrees - underplay the interactive dimensions of music, and both would have benefited from integrating the concept of attachment into their treatments of social bonding. I further suggest that their treatment of music as a discrete domain of human experience and behaviour weakens their arguments concerning its functions in human evolution.

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