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In his opening paper Neisser (this volume) proposes two major characteristics of symbolic skills: they are uniquely human; and they involve reference and meaning. Number and language, he argues, are unique to humans. I believe we may reasonably add music to this list as well.
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Sloboda, J.A. (1983). Is Music a Symbolic Skill? Introduction. In: Rogers, D., Sloboda, J.A. (eds) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_27
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