Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Serena Paese, Andrea Schiavio
1 citation
Previous research shows that meditation practice helps reduce Music Performance Anxiety (MPA), positively impacting the musicians' wellbeing and performative skills. Several meditation types have been explored, but further investigation into additional methods is warranted to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the impact and potential use of meditation to address MPA. The present...
PLoS One
2025
Hannah J Gibbs, Andrea Schiavio
Ideas of temporal distortion prevail in the discourse of flow research, where references are often made to "time flying". Nonetheless, little research has investigated how flow affects time perception in terms of both directionality and surrounding context, particularly within shared flow. Simultaneously, temporal distortion during music listening has been explored, but little is known about...
Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills
June 20, 2024
Andrea Schiavio, Dylan Van der Schyff
1 citation
This chapter delves into a recently developed psychological framework known as '4E cognition' (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) with a dedicated focus on music. Through an exploration of various musical examples, we illuminate each 'E' individually, spanning diverse musical domains such as perception, (remote) learning, performance, and development. To begin, we elucidate the...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
2021
Simon Høffding, Andrea Schiavio
25 citations
In this paper, we advance the thesis that music-making can be advantageously understood as an exploratory phenomenon. While music-making is certainly about aesthetic expression, from a phenomenological, cognitive, and even evolutionary perspective, it more importantly concerns structured explorations of the world around us, our minds, and our bodies. Our thesis is based on an enactive and...
Behavioral Sciences
August 9, 2018
Andrea Schiavio, Dylan Van der Schyff
79 citations
Recent approaches in the cognitive and psychological sciences conceive of mind as an Embodied, Embedded, Extended, and Enactive (or 4E) phenomenon. While this has stimulated important discussions and debates across a vast array of disciplines, its principles, applications, and explanatory power have not yet been properly addressed in the domain of musical development. Accordingly, it remains...
Frontiers in Psychology
2017
Andrea Schiavio, Dylan Van der Schyff, Silke Kruse-Weber et al.
44 citations
In this paper we explore early musical behaviors through the lenses of the recently emerged "4E" approach to mind, which sees cognitive processes as Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended. In doing so, we draw from a range of interdisciplinary research, engaging in critical and constructive discussions with both new findings and existing positions. In particular, we refer to observational...
Andrea Schiavio, Caroline Owen, Adrian Kempf et al.
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...