Abstract Traditionally, research on musical creativity and creativity in general has focused on assessing the products and mental processes of individuals. This chapter provides a novel perspective highlighting the experiential and interactive nature of musical creativity. Its approach is rooted in the 4E (embodied, extended, embedded, enacted) framework of cognition and integrates insights...
Andrea Schiavio, Caroline Owen, Adrian Kempf et al.
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AbstractThe present study examines how individuals articulate the relationship between bodily engagement and affective experience with music, and how these processes vary with musical and dance expertise. Fifty-six adults completed an online survey combining standardised measures of musical and dance sophistication with open-ended questions about everyday listening and emotionally salient...