Notes and neurons

Is our response to music “hard-wired” into our nervous system? Or is it a cultural response, and therefore learned? This was a debate at the World Science Festival, held in New York in June of this year, and Bobby McFerrin took part in it with this impressive demonstration:

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

The whole debate is here.