Music, evolution and the Harmony of Souls by Alan R. Harvey

Used to define music and gain a basic understanding of how the brain processes musical concepts.

Sacks, Oliver W., (2007). Musicophelia (ed. 1). Vintage Books. ISBN: 978-0-307-26791-7

Provided insight to music with a philosophical tone.

Peretz, I., Cummings, S., & Dubé, M. P. (2007). The genetics of congenital amusia (tone deafness): a family-aggregation study. American journal of human genetics, 81(3), 582–588.

Used to understand amusia and its sometimes hereditary nature.

Carden, J. (2009, July 9). Absolute pitch: Myths, evidence and relevance to music education and … Sage Journals. Retrieved December 5, 2022.

Used to define absolute, perfect and relative pitch and understand them.

Cervellin, G. (2011, March 22). From music-beat to heart-beat: A journey in the complex interactions between music, brain and heart. European journal of internal medicine. Retrieved December 4, 2022. 

Talks about the “complex and multifaceted interactions between music and human biology”

How Does Music Affect the Mind and Body? – Medford Leas

More information on the interaction between music and the mind and body.

Art & Music. The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Program. (2022, September 19). Retrieved December 4, 2022.

Used to find out since when humans have been doing music (~35,000yrs, a 10th of the time homo sapiens has been around)

29 Music Industry Statistics [2022]: Facts, Trends, And Sales – Zippia

needed some figures.

Wayback – Synthesia

One of many papers I read on the topic of synthesia, a mental disorder that causes the brain to associate certain sensory or cognitive paths with others, causing the patient to have another sensory or cognitive experience such as seeing color, feeling tingling, imagining numbers in patterns in space or even on a clock. Its development is generally agreed to happen in infancy but can affect a patient from birth, proved to be hereditary but not much more else is known about it.

Semantic mechanisms may be responsible for developing synesthesia – PMC

More synthesia. This one aimed towards development.

Rethinking Congenital Synaesthesia – TANGIBLE TERRITORY

I can barely understand what these people are talking about.

Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Explores hereditary nature of synthesia.

The induction of synaesthesia with chemical agents: a systematic review – PMC

A tangent.

Mesagno C, Marchant D, Morris T. Alleviating Choking: The Sounds of Distraction. Journal of applied sport psychology. 2009;21(2):131-147. doi:10.1080/10413200902795091