Musical games and empathyDiscusses the relationship between musical games and empathy in children. Topics include musical group interaction (MGI), which is the joint playing of music by a group of individuals, an analysis of MGI that found many of the features and skills required by participants may be necessary for empathic behaviour, such as attentiveness to another person's rhythms and the ability to adjust playing in order to maintain synchrony, and the difference between language- and musical-based interaction..