PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Emotivism, Electrodermal Activity, Time Hunter
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Today: music and emotion, music and the brain. Effects of experience with music: effects on music processing, effects on other domains. On other aspects of perception and cognition. Many aspects of music perception and cognition are not affected by explicit instruction: but some differences do exist: E. g. precortical processing of musical sound is different for musicians compared to non-musicians. Initial demonstration that passive exposure to classical music caused enhanced performance on spatial reasoning task. Not so interesting because we"re interested in longer lasting effect. Effect not direct result of music but the arousal/mood modulations that music creates. Indirect effect; changes in arousal of mood music. E. g. not all classical music creates the effect (needs to be upbeat, positive-sounding); and rock music can also create the effect: mozart effect has been debunked. Interpretive problem: do these correlations arise simply because children with higher iq have higher musical abilities (and tend to enroll in/continue with lessons?) Addressing the interpretative problem: schellenberg (2004):
