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  • Cognitive Musicology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Sciences
  • Evolutionary Biology

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  • Life and social sciences emphasize music's social character, with evolutionary hypotheses focusing on sexual selection, parent-infant bonding, and group cohesion.
  • Neurobiology has extensively studied the neural and hormonal basis of musicality for over two decades.
  • Existing research views music as an interactive communicative process rather than just sound patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a framework of music as an embodied language, emphasizing its social interactive nature.
  • To integrate embodied music cognition, predictive processing, and neural underpinnings within this framework.
  • To present experimental evidence supporting the proposed framework of musical interaction.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of concepts defining joint musical action, focusing on embodied music cognition and predictive processing.
  • Analysis of neural underpinnings related to musical interaction.
  • Summarization of three laboratory experiments investigating musical interaction in dyads, from basic actions to complex musical performances.

Main Results:

  • A novel framework conceptualizes music as an embodied language, rooted in culturally adapted brain structures.
  • The framework integrates embodied and predictive features, centered on the concept of joint agency.
  • Experimental findings support the interpretation of musical interaction through the lens of embodied language and predictive processing.

Conclusions:

  • Music, when conceived as an embodied language, offers a pathway to understanding social interaction and communication.
  • The proposed framework provides a comprehensive view of musical interaction, applicable from simple rhythmic coordination to complex musical improvisation.
  • This approach bridges cognitive musicology and neuroscience, highlighting the fundamental role of musicality in human social cognition.