Musical Embodiment

Question 1

Musical entrainment

Answer 1

Aligning or integrating bodily features with a recurrent feature in the soundscape, especially the beat/ pulse of a piece of music

Question 2

Agency

Answer 2

A capacity for emotional, embodied, cognitive being

The ability of a person to think, feel, and act — using their emotions, body, and mind.

Question 3

Dissociative cognitive strategies

Answer 3

Participants don’t focus on the task they are doing, but on something else (in this case, the music)

Question 4

Intrauterine symphony

Answer 4

Sounds in the uterus include the mother’s heartbeat, the mother’s voice, rhythmic swooshing of blood through placental vessels, and other sounds from the outside world

Question 5

Embodied awareness:

Answer 5

Non-cognitive, creaturely orientation and expectancy toward the physical environment

• We exhibit embodied awareness when we organize our actions and behaviours
  o Ex. We respond differently to water in different situations (drink it/ avoid it),
  o Ex. We respond differently to the sun in different situations (seek it/ avoid it)