Audience responses in the light of perception–action theories of empathy

Elsdon, Peter

doi:10.4324/9781315596587-8

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“…Other research has shown effects of musical training on empathy development in children (Rabinowitch et al, 2013), and relations between music and empathic responses have long been assumed (cf. Wöllner, 2017). It may therefore be plausible that long-term musical training rather than only a short exposure should enhance prosocial effects.…”

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Interpersonal Musical Synchronization and Prosocial Behavior in Children: No Effects in a Controlled Field Experiment

2021

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Prosocial effects of music have recently attracted increased attention in research and media. An often-cited experiment, carried out by Kirschner and Tomasello in 2010 under laboratory conditions, found that children at the age of four years were more willing to help each other after they had engaged in synchronous musical activities. The aim of the current study was to replicate this research under controlled field conditions in the children's social environment, and to disentangle the musical synchronization effect by introducing a verbal interaction (singing together) and a motor interaction (tapping together) task, contrasted by an asynchronous control condition. In a between-participants design, no effects of musical synchronization nor the children's gender were found. Furthermore, age was not related to prosocial behavior. Explanations are systematically discussed, yet it remains possible that the original effect found in 2010 might be overestimated and less consistently reproducible as previously assumed.

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Interpersonal Musical Synchronization and Prosocial Behavior in Children: No Effects in a Controlled Field Experiment

2021

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Music in the Air and in the Body: An Interoceptive System’s Perspective on Musical Emotions, Awareness, and Time

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2024

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Subvocalization in singers: Laryngoscopy and surface EMG effects when imagining and listening to song and text

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Wöllner

2019

Psychology of Music

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Subvocalization has been described as a series of attenuated movements of the vocal tract during silent reading and imagination. This two-part study investigated covert laryngeal activations among singers during the perception and imagination of music and text. In the first part, 155 singers responded to an online survey investigating their self-perceived corporal activation when listening to live or recorded singing. Respondents reported frequent corporal activation in their larynx and other body parts in response to live singing and, to a lesser extent, recordings. In the second part, an exploratory experiment was conducted to investigate physiological correlates of subvocalization in singers during the perception and imagery of melody and text stimuli, using simultaneous measurements of laryngeal activation both externally, with surface electromyography, and internally, with nasolaryngoscopy. Experimental results indicate the occurrence of subvocalization during imagination—but not during listening—of both stimuli and suggest that laryngoscopy is more sensitive to detection of subvocalization in singers. The results may point to vocal resonance or empathy in the perception of singers.

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Audience responses in the light of perception–action theories of empathy

Cited by 4 publications

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Interpersonal Musical Synchronization and Prosocial Behavior in Children: No Effects in a Controlled Field Experiment

Interpersonal Musical Synchronization and Prosocial Behavior in Children: No Effects in a Controlled Field Experiment

Music in the Air and in the Body: An Interoceptive System’s Perspective on Musical Emotions, Awareness, and Time

Subvocalization in singers: Laryngoscopy and surface EMG effects when imagining and listening to song and text

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