Joint action is essential in daily life, as humans often must coordinate with others to
accomplish shared goals. Previous studies have mainly focused on sensorimotor aspects of …

Title: The Routledge companion to embodied music interaction/edited by Marc Leman,
Micheline Lesaffre, and Pieter-Jan Maes. Description: New York; London: Routledge, 2017 …

Experience with a sensorimotor task, such as practicing a piano piece, leads to strong
coupling of sensory (visual or auditory) and motor cortices. Here we review behavioral and …

Humans make eye-contact to extract information about other people's mental states,
recruiting dedicated brain networks that process information about the self and others …

Music ensembles are an ideal test-bed for quantitative analysis of social interaction. Music is
an inherently social activity, and music ensembles offer a broad variety of scenarios which …

We tested whether pre-assigned arm movements performed in a group setting
spontaneously synchronized and whether synchronization extended to heart and respiratory …

A recently emerging view in music cognition holds that music is not only social and
participatory in its production, but also in its perception, ie that music is in fact perceived as …

Synchronized movement is a ubiquitous feature of dance and music performance. Much
research into the evolutionary origins of these cultural practices has focused on why humans …

It is now widely accepted that inter-brain synchronization is an important and inevitable
mechanism of interpersonal action coordination and social interaction behavior. This review …

Joint actions require the integration of simultaneous self-and other-related behaviour. Here,
we investigated whether this function is underpinned by motor simulation, that is the capacity …