 This is different from a disembodied approach to music cognition, which sees musical meaning as being based on a perception-based analysis of musical structure.The embodied grounding of music perception is based on a multi-modal encoding of auditory information and on principles that ensure the coupling of perception and action.During the last decade, research in embodied music cognition 
has been strongly motivated by a demand for new tools in view of the interactive possibilities offered by digital media technology.