title: Affordances and the musically extended mind.
abstract: I defend a model of the musically extended mind. I consider how acts of "musicking" grant access to novel emotional experiences otherwise inaccessible. First, I discuss the idea of "musical affordances" and specify both what musical affordances are and how they invite different forms of entrainment. Next, I argue that musical affordances - via soliciting different forms of entrainment - enhance the functionality of various endogenous, emotion-granting regulative processes, drawing novel experiences out of us with an expanded complexity and phenomenal character. I argue that music therefore ought to be thought of as part of the vehicle needed to realize these emotional experiences. I appeal to different sources of empirical work to develop this idea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter Amory Exeter, UK.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krueger
keywords: affordances; emotion regulation; emotions; extended cognition; music; phenomenology