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Assessing the Effects of Music Listening on Psychobiological Stress in Daily Life
Published on: February 2, 2017
What can music tell us about social interaction?
Alessandro D'Ausilio1, Giacomo Novembre2, Luciano Fadiga3
1Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS), Genova, Italy.
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.
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