People in 60 countries listened to songs from 86 mostly small-scale societies from across the globe. They successfully inferred song functions (dance songs, lullabies, healing songs, and love songs) on the basis of song form alone. Human song therefore exhibits widespread form-function associations.

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People in 60 countries listened to songs from 86 mostly small-scale societies from across the globe. They successfully inferred song functions (dance songs, lullabies, healing songs, and love songs) on the basis of song form alone. Human song therefore exhibits widespread form-function associations.