Ciencias Sociales y del Comportamiento

Cross-cultural and Indigenous perspectives on music and social bonding.

Experimental studies of primarily Western participants have suggested that musical synchrony facilitates social bonding. Critics question the validity and cross-cultural generality of synchrony-bonding relationships, as well as the causal role of …

Synchronised group singing enhances social bonding more than group conversation or recitation does: A Registered Report across 30 languages.

The evolution of music, speech, and prosociality has been debated since before Darwin. The social bonding hypothesis proposes that these phenomena may be interlinked: musicality may have facilitated the evolution of social bonding beyond the …

Mind wandering during rest, evoked by preferred music, does not impede short-term memory consolidation

Research has shown that rest is beneficial for memory consolidation. However, periods of rest are also prone to evoke mind wandering (MW) episodes, which have been observed to be an obstacle to learning. As such, an apparent paradox arises from these …