What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic
definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …

This Element discusses contemporary theories of embodied cognition, including what has
been termed the'4Es'(embodied, embedded, extended and enactive cognition). It examines …

Tell me this: Do you think that in the years since you died my life has continued as before?
Do you think that I still walk through our rooms, that my clothes hang in the closets, our …

Despite a long history of researchers who combine phenomenology with qualitative or
quantitative methods, there are only few examples of working with a phenomenological …

Due to music's extraordinary capacity to temporarily alter mental and physical states, the
domain of musical experience offers a natural and accessible field of investigation for the …

The paper defends the position that phenomenological interviews can provide a rich source
of knowledge and that they are in no principled way less reliable or less valid than …

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical
experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical …

In a qualitative study, we explored the range of reflections and experiences involved in the
composition of score-based music by administering a 15-item, open-ended, questionnaire to …

Fostering our understanding of how humans behave, feel and think is a fundamental goal of
psychological research. Widely used methods in psychological research are self-report and …

Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics
to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of …