ArticleeLife2022
Collective dynamics support group drumming, reduce variability, and stabilize tempo drift.
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- The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination.Topics in cognitive science · 2026Review
- Synchrony and Reciprocity in Rhythmic Interaction.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Manifolds in the Medial Premotor Cortex During Switching From Attending to Tapping to a Metronome.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Computational modeling of rhythmic expectations: Perspectives, pitfalls, and prospects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Review
- Manifold properties in the macaque medial premotor cortex during switching from attending to tapping to a metronome.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Analysis of High-Dimensional Coordination in Human Movement Using Variance Spectrum Scaling and Intrinsic Dimensionality.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Modeling dynamics on the dance floor with directional swarmalators.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Dynamic models for musical rhythm perception and coordination.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2023Review
- Exploring the dynamics of intentional sensorimotor desynchronization using phasing performance in music.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Humans are social animals who engage in a variety of collective activities requiring coordinated action. Among these, music is a defining and ancient aspect of human sociality. Human social interaction has largely been addressed in dyadic paradigms, and it is yet to be determined whether the ensuing conclusions generalize to larger groups. Studied more extensively in non-human animal behavior, the presence of multiple agents engaged in the same task space creates different constraints and possibilities than in simpler dyadic interactions. We addressed whether collective dynamics play a role in human circle drumming. The task was to synchronize in a group with an initial reference pattern and then maintain synchronization after it was muted. We varied the number of drummers from solo to dyad, quartet, and octet. The observed lower variability, lack of speeding up, smoother individual dynamics, and leader-less inter-personal coordination indicated that stability increased as group size increased, a sort of temporal wisdom of crowds. We propose a hybrid continuous-discrete Kuramoto model for emergent group synchronization with a pulse-based coupling that exhibits a mean field positive feedback loop. This research suggests that collective phenomena are among the factors that play a role in social cognition.
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