Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System

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Music May Reduce Loneliness and Act as Social Surrogate for a Friend: Evidence from an Experimental Listening Study (2020, background): “Likewise, shared affective motion experience theory claims that music provides company by conveying a sense of the presence, actions, and emotional states of another person (Overy & Molnar-Szakacs, 2009).”
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. (2013, background): “Consider, from this perspective, our many symbol-mediated loops into material culture via notebooks, sketchpads, iphones, and (Pickering and Garrod (2007)) conversations with other agents (and for some intriguing speculations concerning the initial emergence of all those discrete symbols in predicti”
Joint Drumming in Brazilian and German Preschool Children (2014, background): “We agree with Overy and Molnar-Szakacs (2009) that “imitation, synchronization, and shared experience may be key aspects of human musical behavior” (p. 490), and that in the context of live music making, “sound is perceived not only in terms of the auditory signal, but also in terms of the…”
Scaffoldings of the affective mind (2015, background): “The act of playing an instrument affects posture and gestures, autonomic activity, and experience (Davidson, 2012; Overy & Molnar-Szakacs, 2009) and influences wellbeing (Croom, 2012).”