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Jan Stupacher will receive funding for the project "In time with music: A multi-level entrainment framework".
19.12.2018 |
Many of us know this situation: We are listening to music and our foot starts tapping along with the beat almost by itself. This effortless, irresistible, and contagious movement is an example of entrainment to music. In music cognition, the term entrainment describes a variety of processes including the synchronization between a rhythm and 1) changes between high and low excitability phases in specific brain regions (neural entrainment), 2) body movements of an individual (physiological entrainment), and 3) body movements of two or more individuals (social entrainment). The goal of this project is the empirical investigation of neural, physiological, and social entrainment, and their relationships.
The project will not only help to overcome the vagueness of the term entrainment in the music domain, it also promises to provide important findings for the discussion of more general topics in neuroscience, music-supported therapies, and social sciences. Synchronized neural oscillations are not just important for rhythm perception, but also for attention, prediction, the facilitation of neural plasticity, and the binding of parallel computations. Neurophysiological changes resulting from musical training might provide important evidence for music-supported rehabilitation interventions. Finally, the empirical evidence provided by the social entrainment experiments will allow us to assess the extent to which knowledge about the role of music in specific cultures can increase social bonding and reduce prejudice.