A study of 132 audience members of three classical public concerts (all three staged the
same chamber music pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms) …

While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic
stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic contexts by assessing physiological …

Cognitive neuroscience has considerable untapped potential to translate our understanding
of brain function into applications that maintain, restore, or enhance human cognition …

Frisson is the feeling and experience of physical reactions such as shivers, tingling skin, and
goosebumps. Using entrainment through facilitating interpersonal transmissions of …

Background Research on interpersonal synchrony has mostly focused on a single modality,
and hence little is known about the connections between different types of social …

The study of interbrain coupling in a group of people attending a concert together is a
favorable framework to estimate group emotions and more precisely emotional connection …

Advances in virtual reality (VR) technology have sparked novel avenues of growth in the
musical domain. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of VR technology has led to …

Measuring interpersonal synchrony is a promising approach to assess the complexity of
social interaction, which however has been mostly limited to dyads. In this study, we …

When an audience member becomes immersed, their attention shifts towards the media and
story, and they allocate cognitive resources to represent events and characters. Here, we …

A series of eleven public concerts (staging chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett
Dean, Johannes Brahms) was organized with the goal to analyze physiological synchronies …