What can music tell us about social interaction?

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

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.005

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 language	English
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	19
Issue	3
Pages (from-to)	111-114
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1364-6613
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.005
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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title = "What can music tell us about social interaction?",

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.",

author = "Alessandro D'Ausilio and Giacomo Novembre and Luciano Fadiga and Keller, {Peter E.}",

note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank Maestro Riccardo Muti for the precious insight he provided us about the fabric of sensorimotor conversation in orchestras. We also wish to acknowledge the valuable collaboration of the Casa Paganini group in Genova, led by Prof. Antonio Camurri. This work has been supported by European Union Framework Program 7 (FP7) grants SIEMPRE, POETICON++, and EBRAMUS, in addition to the MARCS Institute (University of Western Sydney) and the Max Planck Society. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier Ltd.",

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