What can music tell us about social interaction?

Alessandro D'Ausilio, Giacomo Novembre, Luciano Fadiga, Peter E. Keller

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    Abstract

    Humans are innately social creatures, but cognitive neuroscience, that has traditionally focused on individual brains, is only now beginning to investigate social cognition through realistic interpersonal interaction. Music provides an ideal domain for doing so because it offers a promising solution for balancing the trade-off between ecological validity and experimental control when testing cognitive and brain functions. Musical ensembles constitute a microcosm that provides a platform for parametrically modeling the complexity of human social interaction.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)111-114
    Number of pages4
    JournalTrends in Cognitive Sciences
    Volume19
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • cognition
    • cognitive neuroscience
    • music
    • social interaction

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