Making music in a group: Synchronization and shared experience

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-68

  Overy, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group learning; Music; Pedagogy; Shared experience; Social; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN; DANCING; EDUCATION; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MUSIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PEDAGOGICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRAINING;

EID: 84860249768     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06530.x     Document Type: Article

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