Do Women Prefer More Complex Music around Ovulation?

The evolutionary origins of music are much debated. One theory holds that the ability to produce complex musical sounds might reflect qualities that are relevant in mate choice contexts and hence, that music is functionally analogous to the sexually-selected acoustic displays of some animals. If so,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Charlton, Benjamin D., Filippi, Piera, Fitch, W. Tecumseh
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338418/