# Marmoset monkeys expect the melody's closing tone

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**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/marmoset-monkeys-expect-the-melodys-closing-tone/1406 "2018-12-19T19:36:33Z")\
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> **[Marmoset monkeys expect the melody's closing tone](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219115609.htm)**
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> In speech and music, words and notes depend on each other. Humans are highly sensitive to such dependencies, but the evolutionary origins of this capacity are poorly understood. Cognitive biologists have conducted playback experiments with common...

  
In speech and music, words and notes depend on each other. Humans are highly sensitive to such dependencies, but the evolutionary origins of this capacity are poorly understood. Cognitive biologists have conducted playback experiments with common marmoset monkeys and found that sensitivity to dependencies might have been present in the shared ancestor of marmosets and humans.