Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with
that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

We meta-analytically investigated the strength of synchrony on four dimensions of
response:(1) prosocial behavior,(2) perceived social bonding,(2) social cognition, and (3) …

Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

Conversation is the platform where minds meet: the venue where information is shared,
ideas cocreated, cultural norms shaped, and social bonds forged. Its frequency and ease …

Interpersonal synchrony, the temporal coordination of actions, emotions, thoughts and
physiological processes, is a widely studied ubiquitous phenomenon. Research has already …

Music is a universal language that can elicit profound emotional and cognitive responses. In
this literature review, we explore the intricate relationship between music and the brain, from …

Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

Groove—defined as the pleasurable urge to move to a rhythm—depends on a fine-tuned
interplay between predictability arising from repetitive rhythmic patterns, and surprise arising …