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Leonardo Badino¹, Alessandro D'Ausilio¹, Donald Glowinski²

¹RBCS - Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, IIT - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy.

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Expert musicians

Keywords:

Causality Communication Granger Information flow Joint action Kinematics Leadership Mirror neurons Motor control Music Quartets Sensorimotor Social interaction Social neuroscience

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Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Musicology

Background:

Non-verbal group dynamics are challenging to quantify.
Ensemble musicians offer a model for expert group coordination.
Bodily motion is key to inter-musician coordination and sensorimotor communication.

Purpose of the Study:

To quantitatively analyze non-verbal communication in expert musicians.
To investigate the relationship between musical complexity and communication flow.
To explore the role of information sharing in leadership within ensembles.

Main Methods:

Measured head movement kinematics in an expert quartet.
Applied Granger Causality analysis to determine communication causality patterns.
Introduced score perturbations to induce unidirectional communication.

Main Results:

Communication amount positively correlated with musical score complexity.
Unidirectional influence from the leader decreased under specific perturbation conditions.
Sensorimotor group dynamics and information flow were successfully measured.

Conclusions:

Effective leadership relies on shared information, not exclusive knowledge.
Quantifiable measures of information flow and group dynamics are possible.
Non-verbal cues in expert ensembles provide insights into coordinated behavior.