Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

Across different epochs and societies, humans occasionally gather to jointly make music.
This universal form of collective behavior is as fascinating as it is fragmentedly understood …

Sound and movement are entangled in animal communication. This is obviously true in the
case of sound-constituting vibratory movements of biological structures which generate …

In many musical styles, vocalists manually gesture while they sing. Coupling between
gesture kinematics and vocalization has been examined in speech contexts, but it is an …

Virtual reality (VR) brings radical new possibilities to the empirical study of social music
cognition and interaction. In the present article, we consider the role of VR as a research …

The ability to coordinate with others is fundamental for humans to achieve shared goals.
Often, harmonious interpersonal coordination requires learning, such as ensemble …

Social behaviors rely on the coordination of multiple effectors within one's own body as well
as between the interacting bodies. However, little is known about how coupling at the …

Skilled ensemble musicians coordinate with high precision, even when improvising or
interpreting loosely defined notation. Successful coordination is supported primarily through …

The paradigm of enactive music cognition offers an anti-representational framework for
understanding musical activity as both corporeal and culturally-situated. In this paper, I …

Music's deeply interpersonal nature suggests that music-derived neuroplasticity relates to
interpersonal temporal dynamics, or synchrony. Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) has …