What role can music play in enhancing group cohesion and influencing performance? In May 2020, Bar-Ilan University researchers (a collaboration between social-neuroscientists and scholars from the Department of Music) reported that while members of a group drum together, aspects of their heart function actually synchronized. The findings of the study were published in the journal, Scientific Reports.
The article, Physiological and Behavioral Synchrony Predict Group Cohesion and Performance, was downloaded more than 4,100 times, placing it as one of the journal’s top 100 downloaded neuroscience papers in 2020. Read More.
