Pleasantness makes a good time: musical consonance shapes interpersonal synchronization in dyadic joint action.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Music making is a process by which humans across cultures come together to create patterns of sounds that are aesthetically pleasing. What remains unclear is how this aesthetic outcome affects the sensorimotor interaction between participants.

Method

Here we approach this question using an interpersonal sensorimotor synchronization paradigm to test whether the quality of a jointly created chord (consonant vs. dissonant) affects movement coordination. We recruited non-musician participants in dyads to perform a dyadic synchronization-continuation task (dSCT): on each trial, participants first synchronized their movements to a metronome (synchronization phase) and then continued tapping together at the same tempo without the metronome (continuation phase). Each ta

SUBMITTER: Lazzari G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11534602 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature