During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen that people can adapt quickly to ensure that their social needs are met after being forced to isolate and socially distance. Many individuals turned immediately to music, as evidenced by people singing from balconies, watching live concerts on social media, and group singing online. In this article, we show how these musical adaptations can be understood through the latest advances in the social neuroscience of music-an area that, to date, has been largely overlooked. By streamlining and synthesizing prior theory and research, we introduce a model of the brain that sheds light on the social functions and brain mechanisms that underlie the musical adaptations used for human connection. We highlight the role of oxytocin and the neurocircuitry associated with reward, stress, and the immune system. We show that the social brain networks implicated in music production (in contrast to music listening) overlap with the networks in the brain implicated in the social processes of human cognition-mentalization, empathy, and synchrony-all of which are components of herding; moreover, these components have evolved for social affiliation and connectedness. We conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a starting point for an improved understanding of the relationship between music and the social brain, and we outline goals for future research in the social neuroscience of music. In a time when people across the globe have been unable to meet in person, they have found a way to meet in the music. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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音乐的社会神经科学：通过人类歌曲了解社会大脑。

在 COVID-19 大流行期间，我们看到人们可以迅速适应，以确保在被迫隔离和保持社交距离后满足他们的社交需求。许多人立即转向音乐，人们在阳台上唱歌、在社交媒体上观看现场音乐会以及在线集体演唱就是证明。在本文中，我们展示了如何通过音乐社会神经科学的最新进展来理解这些音乐改编——迄今为止，这一领域在很大程度上被忽视了。通过精简和综合先前的理论和研究，我们引入了一个大脑模型，该模型揭示了用于人类联系的音乐适应背后的社会功能和大脑机制。我们强调催产素的作用以及与奖赏、压力和免疫系统相关的神经回路。我们表明，与音乐制作（与听音乐相反）相关的社会大脑网络与人类认知——心理化、同理心和同步——所有这些都是从众的组成部分的社会过程中涉及的大脑网络重叠；此外，这些组成部分已经演变为社会归属和联系。我们得出结论，COVID-19 大流行可能是更好地理解音乐与社会大脑之间关系的起点，我们概述了音乐社会神经科学未来研究的目标。在世界各地的人们无法亲自见面的时代，他们找到了在音乐中相遇的方式。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。