Current models of musical mood are based on clean, noiseless data that does not correspond to real-life listening experiences. We conducted an experience-sampling study collecting in-situ data of listening experiences. We show that real-life music listening experiences are far from the homogeneous experiences used in current models of musical mood.

Music education is an important factor of students’ development. The positive effect music training evident in all areas, from the intellectual, psychomotor to social and emotional ones, therefore classes school should focus both on making experience, understanding evaluating music, as well expressing one’s own ideas, feelings thoughts. In ear it can be achieved through area listening. Didactic...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether listening to music during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training increases the proportion of lay people delivering chest compressions of 100 per minute. DESIGN Prospective randomised crossover trial. SETTING Large UK university. PARTICIPANTS 130 volunteers (81 men) recruited on an opportunistic basis. Exclusion criteria included age under 18, trained ...

Precise timing of sound is crucial in music for both performing and listening. Indeed, listening to rhythmic sound sequences activates not only the auditory system but also the sensorimotor system. Previously, we showed the significance of neural beta-band oscillations (15-30 Hz) for the timing processing that involves such auditory-motor coordination. Thus, we hypothesized that motor rehabilit...

Music has often been shown to induce emotion in listeners and is also often heard in social contexts (e.g., concerts, parties, etc.), yet until now, the influences of social settings on the emotions experienced by listeners was not known. This exploratory study investigated whether listening to music in a group by Reinhard KOPIEZ on November 9, 2011 msx.sagepub.com Downloaded from 308 Musicae S...

BACKGROUND. The generation and maintenance of tinnitus are assumed to be based on maladaptive functional cortical reorganization. Listening to modified music, which contains no energy in the range of the individual tinnitus frequency, can inhibit the corresponding neuronal activity in the auditory cortex. Music making has been shown to be a powerful stimulator for brain plasticity, inducing cha...

The importance of music in our daily life has given rise to an increased number of studies addressing the brain regions involved in its appreciation. Some of these studies controlled only for the familiarity of the stimuli, while others relied on pleasantness ratings, and others still on musical preferences. With a listening test and a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment, we...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on depression and loneliness of elderly. methods & materials: research instruments consisted of the geriatric depression scale, loneliness scale and music therapy package, all administered on 20 men and 18 women through a pretest-posttest with control group. results: results indicated that music therapy decreases d...

According to the first publication in 1993 by Rauscher et al. [Nature 1993; 365: 611], the Mozart effect implies the enhancement of reasoning skills solving spatial problems in normal subjects after listening to Mozart’s piano sonata K 448. A further evaluation of this effect has raised the question whether there is a link between music-generated emotions and a higher level of cognitive abiliti...