Conformity bias in the cultural transmission of music sampling traditions

• Main Author: Youngblood, Mason
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 27.06.2019
• Subjects: Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution; Statistics - Applications; Statistics - Machine Learning

One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level processes scale up to generate population-level patterns. Previous studies in music have revealed that frequency-based bias (e.g. conformity and novelty) drives large-scale cultural diversity in different ways...