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Hearing movement, seeing sound: multimodal predictive coding in pianist-dancer interaction.

Xinyu Cao¹, Xinlei Shi¹

¹Beihua University, Jilin, China.

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Summary

Pianist-dancer coordination achieves synchrony through predictive coding, where performers anticipate movements and sounds. This bidirectional inference model explains how they overcome sensory delays for seamless live performance.

Keywords:

EEG hyperscanning active inference coupled oscillator model joint action micro-timing perturbation pianist–dancer interaction predictive coding sensorimotor synchronization

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Kinesiology
Music Performance

Background:

Live piano accompaniment for dance presents a 'zero-latency paradox,' requiring near-simultaneous audiovisual alignment despite inherent sensory and integration delays.
Purely reactive control models are insufficient to explain the rapid coordination observed between pianists and dancers.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and review evidence for a bidirectional inference framework under cross-modal predictive coding as an explanation for pianist-dancer coordination.
To integrate behavioral, kinematic, and neurophysiological findings to support this neurally informed account of dyadic coordination.

Main Methods:

Review of behavioral studies, motion-capture, time-series analysis, neuroimaging, electroencephalography (EEG), sensorimotor synchronization paradigms, and autonomic measures.
Integration of coupled-oscillator modeling and EEG hyperscanning to analyze bidirectional adaptation.

Main Results:

Pianists utilize dancers' preparatory kinematics to predict timing and dynamics, shortening prediction windows.
Dancers exhibit predictive control ('hearing movement') via rapid phase correction to auditory perturbations.
Neurophysiological evidence supports action-perception coupling ('seeing sound') and arousal modulation by musical tension.

Conclusions:

Pianist-dancer coordination is dynamically co-regulated through bidirectional inference and predictive coding, not merely reactive or unidirectional.
This framework offers a neurally informed explanation for closed-loop dyadic coordination.
Further direct investigation of pianist-dancer interaction is needed to solidify these findings.