Embodied music cognition

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Introduction

Given the impact of body movement on musical meaning formation and signification, the musical mind is said to be embodied. The Embodiment assumes that what happens in the mind is depending on properties of the body, such as kinaesthetic properties. We can also go back to see that Embodied Music Cognion born by and referring the general Embodied Cognition, and that is evidently the basical theory from which became possible to put the concept of musicality actualizing through body and thherefore been theorize the ‘’Corporeal Musicality’’ It be said also that ‘’incorporation’’ could be seen as a ‘’pragmatic view’’ of what happen in music whitin our body. Thus it is seen to mirror the idea of a (qualitative) experience concerning production by interactions with works such as in Art As Experience by pragmatist philosopher-psychologist John Dewey. Dewey thinks that human experiences are regarding people's personal lives as they are the by-product of continuous and commutative interactions of a biological and organic “self” (an “incarnated ‘’ego’’) in aworld. These lived (corporeal) experiences should serve as the foundation to build “selfish identity An other position is that of cognitivist George Lakoff which see embodiment to be resulting of a relationship between cognition and bodily process. Thus cognition has to see as the sensory and motor mechanisms enabling reciprocally Peter Putnam and Robert W. Fuller advanced a version of the computational theory of mind, perceptual control theory and neuroplasticity wherein rules become fixed in the brain's structure based on trial and error and motor neuron feedback loops.

Embodied music cognition tends to see music perception as based on action. For example, many people move when they listen to music. Through movement, it is assumed that people give meaning to music. This type of meaning-formation is corporeal, rather than cerebral because it is understood through the body. This is different from a disembodied approach to music cognition, which sees musical meaning as being based on a perception-based analysis of musical structure. The embodied grounding of music perception is based on a multi-modal encoding of auditory information and on principles that ensure the coupling of perception and action.

Two-Level Model of Embodied Cognition in Music

Marina Korsakova-Kreyn (2018) proposes that musical cognition operates on two interrelated levels of embodiment. The surface level refers to observable bodily responses to music, including performers’ motor actions, visible gestures, and rhythmic entrainment in listeners. This level reflects the apparent physical articulation of musical experience.

The deep level is less visible and concerns the internal physiological and perceptual responses to tonal and temporal structures. Korsakova-Kreyn argues that musical meaning originates in how the body reacts to tonal relationships arranged over time. These relationships are built from basic melodic intervals that vary in tonal stability, consonance, and dissonance, creating expectations that guide melodic intentionality and the perception of musical motion. Tonal–temporal structures are therefore understood as encoding musical content that shapes motor behavior and underlies emotional and cognitive responses to music.

This model links traditional musicological concepts with findings from music perception, affective neuroscience, and brain plasticity in musicians. The theory focuses on tonal music of the European tradition and does not address aleatoric or non-Western musical systems. To make the model accessible to nonmusicians, the original paper includes explanations of basic music theory.

During the last decade, research in embodied music cognition has been strongly motivated by a demand for new tools in view of the interactive possibilities offered by digital media technology.

With the advent of powerful computing tools, and in particular real-time interactive music systems, gradually more attention has been devoted to the role of gesture in music. This musical gestures research has been rather influential in that it puts more emphasis on sensorimotor feedback and integration, as well as on the coupling of perception and action. With new sensor technology, gesture-based research has meanwhile become a vast domain of music research, with consequences for the methodological and epistemological foundations of music cognition research.