Music creates a sense of collective identity and community 鈥 but how? Professors Bruce Hansen and Caroline Keating, from 91麻豆精品鈥檚 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Assistant Professor Sinhaeng Lee, from the Department of Music, deploy mobile, non-invasive, neural activity recording technologies to investigate whether choral directors鈥 use of gestures, postures, gazes, and facial expressions synchronize individual choristers鈥 physiological and brain wave patterns in ways that enhance performance and transform individuated 鈥渟elves鈥 into a collective identity.
This project is jointly funded with the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative. It also received support from the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute, for which the recipients are grateful.