Enacting musical emotions. sense-making, dynamic systems, and the embodied mind

Journal article

The subject of musical emotions has emerged only recently as a major area of research. While much work in this area offers fascinating insights to musicological research, assumptions about the nature of emotional experience seem to remain committed to appraisal, representations, and a rule-based or information-processing model of cognition. Over the past three decades alternative ‘embodied’ and ‘enactive’ models of mind have challenged this approach by emphasising the self-organising aspects ...

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Authors: Schiavio, A; van der Schyff, D; Cespedes-Guevara, J; Reybrouck, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer Publisher's website
• Journal: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Journal website
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 785-809
• Publication date: 2016-07-22
• Acceptance date: 2016-07-16
• DOI: 10.1007/s11097-016-9477-8
• EISSN: 1572-8676
• ISSN: 1568-7759
• Keywords: dynamic systems; enaction; sense-making; embodied music cognition; embodiment; music and emotion