Music Listening as Exploratory Behavior
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 195
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, IPEM, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: music psychology; musical sense-making; musical epistemology; neurobiological grounding of music listening; music and brain studies
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Interests: evolution of musicality; psychology of music; biomusiclogy; meaning in music; coevolution of speech and music; pitch perception
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Interests: noise; hearing; hearing loss; noise-induced hearing loss; auditory neurophysiology; psychoacoustics; soundscape; health promotion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Music listening is an exploratory activity that involves perception, affect and cognition. As a time-oriented process, it relies on attention, memory, and expectation. It can be seen as an affordance-laden structure that invites listeners to create meaning for themselves by “coping” with the sounds. Coping, as a survival mechanism, entails cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific internal and/or external demands on the resources of an individual. Applied to music, this means that listeners may search for stimuli that possess benefits, resulting in the management and regulation of attention and arousal, as well as optimal homeostatic regulation.
The aim of this Special Issue is to broaden the scope of music listening to embrace the larger sonic world. Music, from this perspective, is considered as a sound environment, and listening as a process of exploration of this environment. It is an approach that conceives of music as both structured by the composer and musicians, and taking on an idiosyncratic structure imposed by the exploratory behavior of each individual listener. This exploratory behavior proceeds in real-time and can be seen as an epistemic tool for the understanding of music, with a major emphasis on active search rather than passive listening. Several mechanisms are involved in this process, such as the dynamics of attention and knowledge construction, both at the level of sensory information processing, emotional bodily resonance, and higher-level cognitive elaboration.
Prof. Dr. Mark Reybrouck
Prof. Dr. Piotr Podlipniak
Dr. David Welch
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Keywords
- music as a sound environment
- music as soundscape
- exploratory behavior as a cognitive category
- broad-and-build theory: broadening the behavioral and cognitive repertoire
- music perception and attentional dynamics
- skillful coping with sounds
- musical affordances
- exploratory listening and homeostatic regulation
- music knowledge acquisition
- musical improvisation as exploratory behavior
- musicality as an evolutionary achievement
- discovery learning
