Musical friends and foes: The social cognition of affiliation and control in improvised interactions.

ABSTRACT: A recently emerging view in music cognition holds that music is not only social and participatory in its production, but also in its perception, i.e. that music is in fact perceived as the sonic trace of social relations between a group of real or virtual agents. While this view appears compatible with a number of intriguing music cognitive phenomena, such as the links between beat entrainment and prosocial behaviour or between strong musical emotions and empathy, direct evidence is lacking that listeners are at all able to use the acoustic features of a musical interaction to infer the affiliatory or controlling nature of an underlying social intention. We created a novel experimental situation in which we asked expert music improvisers to communicate 5 types of non-musical social intenti

SUBMITTER: Aucouturier JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5348120 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature