Here are a number of questions which are meant to stimulate thinking and should be illuminated by web search and open access journals.
(a) Why is synchronisation a problem in finance (herding), the brain (epileptic seizure) and pedestrians passing bridges?
(b) Why and how do fireflies synchronise? 

Let us now focus inmore detail on synchronisation amongst humans. The following is concerned with a critical reading of two important synchronisation papers that discuss human behaviour and on the basis of these, looking closer at how the state of mind during improvisation can be further investigated.
(c) Make a short summary of the reviewarticle on synchronisation-coordinated human activity [316] and include a brief discussion of how useful you find the concept of synchronisation as a tool to understand collective human activity.

(d) Now do the same for the more specialised study of collaborative learning [317].
(e) On the basis of your considerations in (c) and (d), consider the suggestion that a special improvisational state of mind exists and is utilised by classical musicians when interpreting a composed peace in the more creative let-go performance style [109].
(f) Imagine you had access to brain scanners such as EEG and MEG equipment or other devices you would find useful and a set of top trained musicians, how would you design an experiment that would be able to check if human synchronisation of some form takes place during the improvisational state of mind?(d) Now do the same for the more specialised study of collaborative learning [317].