TY - JOUR
T1 - Meta-cognition for music as a solution to the fragmentation problem
AU - Loui, Psyche
AU - Margulis, Elizabeth H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2025/11/27
Y1 - 2025/11/27
N2 - Meta-cognition enhances the social bonding hypothesis for musicality, integrating imagination, episodic simulation, causal inference, and inhibition. Music fosters group cohesion by engaging the endogenous opioid system, supporting intergroup understanding through vivid mental imagery, and facilitating socio-affective fiction. Additionally, causal inference enables contextual interpretation of music, while inhibition refines musical coordination and executive function, reinforcing cognitive flexibility for cooperative social behavior.
AB - Meta-cognition enhances the social bonding hypothesis for musicality, integrating imagination, episodic simulation, causal inference, and inhibition. Music fosters group cohesion by engaging the endogenous opioid system, supporting intergroup understanding through vivid mental imagery, and facilitating socio-affective fiction. Additionally, causal inference enables contextual interpretation of music, while inhibition refines musical coordination and executive function, reinforcing cognitive flexibility for cooperative social behavior.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X25101763
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X25101763
M3 - Review article
C2 - 41298096
AN - SCOPUS:105023215143
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 48
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e175
ER -