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    "pk": 21661,
    "title": "Professional Jazz Musicians Explore and Exploit a Space of Sounds",
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    "abstract": "Collective improvisation is remarkable. When people\nimprovise—whether dancing, making music, or conversing—\nthey coordinate their behavior while exploring abstract spaces\nof movements, sounds, and ideas. How do improvisers navigate\nthese abstract spaces? One possibility is that improvisation\nbuilds on foraging strategies used to search the physical\nworld. Here, we investigate the dynamics of an especially\ncomplex and abstract form of collective improvisation: free\njazz. We quantify how professional jazz ensembles navigate\na space of sounds and show that it resembles a foraging strategy\nknown as Area Restricted Search. In particular, ensembles\nchange their playing dynamics in response to encounters with\nnovel ‘soundworlds.' Before encountering a new soundworld,\nensembles engage in widespread exploration; immediately after,\nthey shift to focused exploitation of the new sound. While\ncollective improvisation pushes at our cognitive limits and is a\nparadigm of human creativity, it may build on evolutionarilyancient\nstrategies for searching space.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Other; Creativity; Group Behaviour; Music; Corpus studies"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Tevin",
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            "last_name": "Williams",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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            "last_name": "Setzler",
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            "institution": "Meta",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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