Collective dynamics support group drumming, reduce variability, and stabilize tempo drift.

ABSTRACT: Humans are social animals who engage in a variety of collective activities requiring coordinated action. Among these, music is a defining and ancient aspect of human sociality. Human social interaction has largely been addressed in dyadic paradigms, and it is yet to be determined whether the ensuing conclusions generalize to larger groups. Studied more extensively in non-human animal behavior, the presence of multiple agents engaged in the same task space creates different constraints and possibilities than in simpler dyadic interactions. We addressed whether collective dynamics play a role in human circle drumming. The task was to synchronize in a group with an initial reference pattern and then maintain synchronization after it was muted. We varied the number of drummers from solo to dya

SUBMITTER: Dotov D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678363 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature