Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Empowered by Music -- Why expressive interaction? -- But what is expression? -- What is empowerment? -- Why cognition in relation to motivation? -- Why music? -- Is there a cognitive science of music? -- Structure of the book -- 2 A Model of Musical Communication -- From semantics to pragmatics -- Constituents of a pragmatic model of musical communication -- Variability and constraints in musical communication -- Limitations of communication models -- Summary -- 3 Musical Expression -- The human expressive system -- A definition of expression -- Musical expression, emotion, and gesture -- Evidence for the human expressive system in music interaction -- Some further reflections on expression -- Summary -- 4 Music: Emergent Patterns Endowed with Expression -- Interactive dialectics -- The emergence-disposition dynamics -- Emergent patterns evoke cognitive interest at the intentional level -- Emergence and expression—a reinforcing match -- Conclusion -- 5 Entrainment -- Entrainment and timing -- Human factors that influence entrainment and alignment -- Manipulating the setup for entrainment -- Entrainment in the context of playing music -- Conclusion -- 6 Sensorimotor Prediction -- Expected outcomes of motor activity -- Internal predictive models -- Music performance as an exercise in sensorimotor prediction -- Interaction and predictive controls -- Prediction and expression -- Conclusion -- 7 Expressive Alignment -- Prototypical examples of expressive alignment -- Alignment as pattern -- Expressive alignment transition processes -- Homeostasis -- Conclusion -- 8 Expression, Motivation, and Reward -- The reward system -- Music as reward -- The interaction-reward hypothesis -- Conclusion -- 9 Expressive Interactions -- Expressive interactive machines -- Art and indeterminacy -- What music research contributes to cognitive science -- Bibliography -- Index -- .
