title: What can music tell us about social interaction?
abstract: Humans are innately social creatures, but cognitive neuroscience, that has traditionally focused on individual brains, is only now beginning to investigate social cognition through realistic interpersonal interaction. Music provides an ideal domain for doing so because it offers a promising solution for balancing the trade-off between ecological validity and experimental control when testing cognitive and brain functions. Musical ensembles constitute a microcosm that provides a platform for parametrically modeling the complexity of human social interaction.
authors: Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS), Genova, Italy. Electronic address: alessandro.dausilio@iit.it.
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: D'Ausilio
authors: The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
authors: Giacomo
authors: G
authors: Novembre
authors: Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS), Genova, Italy; University of Ferrara, Section of Human Physiology, Ferrara, Italy.
authors: Luciano
authors: L
authors: Fadiga
authors: The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
authors: Peter E
authors: PE
authors: Keller
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*