4 papers
Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?
Harin Lee, Rainer Polak, Manuel Anglada-Tort +3
Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajec…
GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
Harin Lee, Elif Ãelen, Peter Harrison +5
Human annotations of mood in music are essential for music generation and recommender systems. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on Western songs with terms derived fr…
The Dynamics of Collective Creativity in Human-AI Hybrid Societies
Shota Shiiku, Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort +1
Generative AI is shaping an increasingly hybrid society, where ideas and cultural artefacs are created both by humans and intelligent machines. Human creativity is influenced in co…
Characterizing the Interaction of Cultural Evolution Mechanisms in Experimental Social Networks
Raja Marjieh, Manuel Anglada-Tort, Thomas L. Griffiths +1
Understanding how cognitive and social mechanisms shape the evolution of complex artifacts such as songs is central to cultural evolution research. Social network topology (what ar…