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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