Most notated forms of music require interpretation of loosely-defined score instructions. For
music ensembles, coordinating a shared interpretation in which each performer plays a …

This study aims to investigate leadership in orchestra conducting and interrogate
educational principles to improve conducting pedagogy. Effective leadership implies a set of …

During joint actions, humans continuously exchange coordination signals and use
nonverbal, sensorimotor forms of communication. Here we discuss a specific example of …

Abstract Although applauding Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) attempt to ground language use
in the ideomotor perception-action link, which provides an" infrastructure" of embodied …

The nineteenth century saw a number of significant changes in European musical culture,
including changes in the size and nature of the orchestra and the rise of the modern …

Turn-taking is a preverbal skill whose mastering constitutes an important precondition for
many social interactions and joint actions. However, the cognitive mechanisms supporting …

Joint action (JA) is a continuous process of motor co‐regulation based on the integration of
contextual (top‐down) and kinematic (bottom‐up) cues from partners. The fine equilibrium …

Pickering and Garrod's integrated model of production and comprehension includes no
explicit role for non-linguistic cognitive processes. Yet, how domain-general cognitive …

Gait assessment is a common method for diagnosing various diseases, disorders, and
injuries, studying their impact on mobility, and evaluating the efficacy of various therapeutic …

Recent research into how musicians coordinate their expressive timing, phrasing,
articulation, dynamics, and other stylistic characteristics during performances has …