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The coupling of action and perception in musical meaning formation

Pieter-Jan Maes (UGent) , Edith Van Dyck (UGent) , Micheline Lesaffre (UGent) , Marc Leman (UGent) and Pieter Kroonenberg
(2014) MUSIC PERCEPTION. 32(1). p.67-84
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The embodied perspective on music cognition has stressed the central role of the body and body move- ments in musical meaning formation processes. In the present study, we investigate by means of a behavioral experiment how free body movements in response to music (i.e., action) can be linked to specific linguistic, metaphorical descriptions people use to describe the expressive qualities they perceive in the music (i.e., per- ception). We introduce a dimensional model based on the Effort/Shape theory of Laban in order to target musical expressivity from an embodied perspective. Also, we investigate whether a coupling between action and perception is dependent on the musical background of the participants (i.e., trained versus untrained). The results show that the physical appearance of the free body movements that participants perform in response to music are reliably linked to the linguistic descriptions of musical expressiveness in terms of the underlying quality. Moreover, this result is found to be independent of the participants’ musical background.
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expressive ges- tures, action-perception coupling, musical expressiveness, musical metaphor, embodied music cognition, SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL DATA, MOVEMENT, METAPHORS, COGNITION, PIANISTS, EMOTION, BRAIN, EXPRESSION, EXPERIENCE, GESTURE, IPEMexpressive

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MLA
Maes, Pieter-Jan, et al. “The Coupling of Action and Perception in Musical Meaning Formation.” MUSIC PERCEPTION, vol. 32, no. 1, 2014, pp. 67–84, doi:10.1525/MP.2014.32.1.67.
APA
Maes, P.-J., Van Dyck, E., Lesaffre, M., Leman, M., & Kroonenberg, P. (2014). The coupling of action and perception in musical meaning formation. MUSIC PERCEPTION, 32(1), 67–84. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2014.32.1.67
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Maes, Pieter-Jan, Edith Van Dyck, Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman, and Pieter Kroonenberg. 2014. “The Coupling of Action and Perception in Musical Meaning Formation.” MUSIC PERCEPTION 32 (1): 67–84. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2014.32.1.67.
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Maes, Pieter-Jan, Edith Van Dyck, Micheline Lesaffre, Marc Leman, and Pieter Kroonenberg. 2014. “The Coupling of Action and Perception in Musical Meaning Formation.” MUSIC PERCEPTION 32 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1525/MP.2014.32.1.67.
Vancouver
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Maes P-J, Van Dyck E, Lesaffre M, Leman M, Kroonenberg P. The coupling of action and perception in musical meaning formation. MUSIC PERCEPTION. 2014;32(1):67–84.
IEEE
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P.-J. Maes, E. Van Dyck, M. Lesaffre, M. Leman, and P. Kroonenberg, “The coupling of action and perception in musical meaning formation,” MUSIC PERCEPTION, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 67–84, 2014.
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