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Embodied music cognition is a direction within systematic musicology interested in studying the role of the human body in relation to all musical activities. It considers the human body as the natural mediator between mind (focused on musical intentions, meanings, significations) and physical environment (containing musical sound and other ...
Embodied music cognition means that the cognitive processing of music (such as learning, memory use, prediction, etc.) is based on corporeally mediated interactions with music. Another way to approach this is to see it in terms of patterns and states, and the predictive models surrounding the connections between patterns and states [ 34.12 , 34 ...
- Marc Leman, Pieter-Jan Maes, Luc Nijs, Edith Van Dyck
- 2018
Apr 27, 2015 · In this article I advocate a hypothesis that music has a specific cognitive function to embody abstract thoughts. This embodiment proceeds through musical emotions, special types of emotions that we may experience when listening to music and that connect abstract thoughts and mental representations to instinctual drives.
Jan 1, 2017 · What Is Embodied Music Cognition? January 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_34. In book: Springer handbook of systematic musicology. Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Editors:...
Music Cognition and Embodiment. How might we connect the theoretical framework of embodied cognition with the study of music? First, we should examine the role of the body in music perception, cognition, and production, and attempt to take into account the realities of our perceptual systems.
Leman outlines his theory of embodied music cognition, introducing a model that describes the relationship between a human subject and its environment, analyzing the coupling of action and perception, and exploring different degrees of the body's engagement with music.
