Life and social sciences often focus on the social nature of music (and language alike). In biolo... more Life and social sciences often focus on the social nature of music (and language alike). In biology, for example, the three main evolutionary hypotheses about music (i.e., sexual selection, parent-infant bond, and group cohesion) stress its intrinsically social character (Honing et al., 2015). Neurobiology thereby has investigated the neuronal and hormonal underpinnings of musicality for more than two decades (Chanda and Levitin, 2013; Salimpoor et al., 2015; Mehr et al., 2019). In line with these approaches, the present paper aims to suggest that the proper way to capture the social interactive nature of music (and, before it, musicality), is to conceive of it as an embodied language, rooted in culturally adapted brain structures (Clarke et al., 2015; D’Ausilio et al., 2015). This proposal heeds Ian Cross’ call for an investigation of music as an “interactive communicative process” rather than “a manifestation of patterns in sound” (Cross, 2014), with an emphasis on its embodied an...
Mutual adaptive timing (MAT), the capacity to adapt one's timing to the timing of a partner, ... more Mutual adaptive timing (MAT), the capacity to adapt one's timing to the timing of a partner, is a form of interpersonal entrainment necessary to play music in ensemble. To this respect, two questions can be advanced. First, whether MAT can be seen also in non-musician populations. This might imply interesting theoretical consequences with respect to the hypothesis of an innate inter-subjective musicality. Second, whether subject's MAT can be influenced by the position of the partner's body. This might imply that MAT modulation is guided by changes in the feeling of body ownership and agency, which in turn would affect subject's cortico-spinal excitability patterns. In order to test these hypotheses, we employed an alternate joint finger tapping task (which can be easily carried out without being expert performers), while single-pulse TMS was delivered on M1. This experimental design allowed us to test MAT in non-musicians and to study cortico-spinal excitability patt...
Sistemi intelligenti Rivista quadrimestrale di scienze cognitive e di intelligenza artificiale IS... more Sistemi intelligenti Rivista quadrimestrale di scienze cognitive e di intelligenza artificiale ISSN : 1120-9550. Numero: 3, dicembre 2004, Indice. DOI: 10.1422/18689. Narcisismo e invarianti: precisazioni per un approccio sensomotorio Alessandro Dell'Anna, pp. ...
The paper discusses some recent suggestions offered by the so-called sensorimotor (or enactivist)... more The paper discusses some recent suggestions offered by the so-called sensorimotor (or enactivist) theo-rists as to the problem of the explanatory gap, that is, the alleged impossibility of accounting for phenomenal consciousness in any scientific theory. We argue in the paper that, although some enactivist theorists' suggestions appear fresh and eye-opening, the claim that the explanatory gap is (dis)solved is much overstated.
Abstract "Sense and Sensibilia" is the less known among John Austin's ... more Abstract "Sense and Sensibilia" is the less known among John Austin's works. It seems worth to stress its tie to a couple of contemporary theories of perception, first of all the ecological approach to perception. Austin's concern with the context of ordinary language puts him very close ...
Life and social sciences often focus on the social nature of music (and language alike). In biolo... more Life and social sciences often focus on the social nature of music (and language alike). In biology, for example, the three main evolutionary hypotheses about music (i.e., sexual selection, parent-infant bond, and group cohesion) stress its intrinsically social character (Honing et al., 2015). Neurobiology thereby has investigated the neuronal and hormonal underpinnings of musicality for more than two decades (Chanda and Levitin, 2013; Salimpoor et al., 2015; Mehr et al., 2019). In line with these approaches, the present paper aims to suggest that the proper way to capture the social interactive nature of music (and, before it, musicality), is to conceive of it as an embodied language, rooted in culturally adapted brain structures (Clarke et al., 2015; D’Ausilio et al., 2015). This proposal heeds Ian Cross’ call for an investigation of music as an “interactive communicative process” rather than “a manifestation of patterns in sound” (Cross, 2014), with an emphasis on its embodied an...
Mutual adaptive timing (MAT), the capacity to adapt one's timing to the timing of a partner, ... more Mutual adaptive timing (MAT), the capacity to adapt one's timing to the timing of a partner, is a form of interpersonal entrainment necessary to play music in ensemble. To this respect, two questions can be advanced. First, whether MAT can be seen also in non-musician populations. This might imply interesting theoretical consequences with respect to the hypothesis of an innate inter-subjective musicality. Second, whether subject's MAT can be influenced by the position of the partner's body. This might imply that MAT modulation is guided by changes in the feeling of body ownership and agency, which in turn would affect subject's cortico-spinal excitability patterns. In order to test these hypotheses, we employed an alternate joint finger tapping task (which can be easily carried out without being expert performers), while single-pulse TMS was delivered on M1. This experimental design allowed us to test MAT in non-musicians and to study cortico-spinal excitability patt...
Sistemi intelligenti Rivista quadrimestrale di scienze cognitive e di intelligenza artificiale IS... more Sistemi intelligenti Rivista quadrimestrale di scienze cognitive e di intelligenza artificiale ISSN : 1120-9550. Numero: 3, dicembre 2004, Indice. DOI: 10.1422/18689. Narcisismo e invarianti: precisazioni per un approccio sensomotorio Alessandro Dell'Anna, pp. ...
The paper discusses some recent suggestions offered by the so-called sensorimotor (or enactivist)... more The paper discusses some recent suggestions offered by the so-called sensorimotor (or enactivist) theo-rists as to the problem of the explanatory gap, that is, the alleged impossibility of accounting for phenomenal consciousness in any scientific theory. We argue in the paper that, although some enactivist theorists' suggestions appear fresh and eye-opening, the claim that the explanatory gap is (dis)solved is much overstated.
Abstract "Sense and Sensibilia" is the less known among John Austin's ... more Abstract "Sense and Sensibilia" is the less known among John Austin's works. It seems worth to stress its tie to a couple of contemporary theories of perception, first of all the ecological approach to perception. Austin's concern with the context of ordinary language puts him very close ...
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