Accident and Serendipity in Music Composition, Improvisation and Performance Art

Lock, Gerhard; Sikk, Jaak

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84478-3_8

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“…This could explain why experts report fewer moments of conscious serendipity. For example, as musicians become more skilled in improvisation they are able to respond to accidents in a non-conscious manner and so errors take on a different form during the performance (Lock & Sikk, 2022). It remains to be seen if expertise can be understood as an accumulation of multi-layered indices which quickly draw attention to the felicitous mistake.…”

Section: The Serendipitous Cognition Modelmentioning

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Accidental Thinking: A Model of Serendipity’s Cognitive Processes

Ross

2024

Review of General Psychology

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Serendipity captures the interaction between a skilled human agent and a fortuitous event in the environment. Although it features in many stories of invention and discovery, its antecedents remain elusive. This paper combines research from different domains of psychology to present a model of the cognitive processes required for a serendipitous episode to occur. The model describes a prepared mind that consists of an informational state and an attentional state. Both states are considered as dynamic rather than fixed. An accident is then the trigger event that updates both of these and feeds information back into the prepared mind. If the accident is noticed, a cycle of judgement and amplification occurs, eventually leading to an output. The model generates novel predictions that point to an increased understanding of how best to scaffold serendipitous moments.

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Section: The Serendipitous Cognition Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%