{"id":1141,"date":"2019-01-21T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:08:28","slug":"entrainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/21\/entrainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width='110' height='86' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/turkeyaffect.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=parrot+rhythm\">parrot rhythm videos<\/a> all over youtube are funny, sort of, and interesting. <\/p>\n<p>Probably our common origins in big-beat rhythm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0028393217300039\">entrainment<\/a> (though no idea why: possibly courtship display? some sort of social contagion? doesn\u2019t look like aggressivity). <\/p>\n<p>Interesting that it\u2019s shown by the only other species that can imitate speech. Would they do it with a rhythmic visual stimulus alone? <\/p>\n<p>Reminds me vaguely of the (vaguely repulsive) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=baby+got+rhythm\">baby rhythm videos <\/a>(which put me off partly because of the vulgar adult movements in the toddlers and partly because of the vulgar music) <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if parrots also imitate movement?<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe it\u2019s just me, but something feels non-innocent in videos like these, something reminiscent of circus-display on-cue: the kind of music, the kind of movement, the kind of people. Maybe I\u2019m just post-april-fools-day-pausal today\u2026 but I much prefer to see tenderness, empathy, tentativeness, and, yes, respect, toward animals, and especially captive ones. Ditto for babies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parrot rhythm videos all over youtube are funny, sort of, and interesting. Probably our common origins in big-beat rhythm entrainment (though no idea why: possibly courtship display? some sort of social contagion? doesn\u2019t look like aggressivity). Interesting that it\u2019s shown by the only other species that can imitate speech. Would they do it with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/21\/entrainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Entrainment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}