Meaning-making and creativity in musical entrainment

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1326773
• Publication Date: 2024-01-03T04:13:50Z
• Authors: Andrea Schiavio; Maria A. G. Witek; Jan Stupacher
• Keywords: Entrainment (biomusicology); Music psychology; Situated cognition

In this paper we suggest that basic forms of musical entrainment may be considered as intrinsically creative, enabling further creative behaviors which flourish at different levels and timescales. Rooted in an agent's capacity to form meaningful couplings with their sonic, social, cultural environment, favors processes adaptation exploration, where innovative functional aspects are cultivated via active, bodily experience. We explore these insights through a theoretical lens integrates findings from enactive cognitive science cognition research. center our examination on the realms groove experience communicative emotional dimensions music, aiming present novel preliminary perspective entrainment, rooted fundamental concepts meaning-making creativity. To do so, draw suite approaches place particular emphasis role situated review range recent empirical work (in non-musical settings), emphasizing latter's biological foundations. conclude regarded building block for creativities shape one's development, offering concrete example how theory could empirically tested future.