We assume that there are various musical groupings of perceptions according to the degree of schemata and there are two dominant music grouping schemata; (a) accent-oriented grouping schema and (b) phrasing schema (musical expression referred to as the Rainbow type). In order to verify these hypotheses, we investigated how listeners’ groupings change when the inner voice of Beethoven’s Piano So...

In light of theories postulating a role for music in forming emotional and social bonds, here we investigated whether endogenous rhythms synchronize between multiple individuals when listening to music. Cardiovascular and respiratory recordings were taken from multiple individuals (musically trained or music-naïve) simultaneously, at rest and during a live concert comprising music excerpts with...

Music is a universal feature of human cultures, and it has both fascinated and troubled many researchers. In this paper we show through the dictator game (DG) that an individual's listening to preferred "chill-inducing" music may promote altruistic behavior that extends beyond the bounds of kin selection or reciprocal altruism. Participants were 22 undergraduate and postgraduate students who we...

While background music is often used during osteopathic treatment, it remains unclear whether it facilitates treatment, and, if it does, whether it is listening to music or jointly listening to a common stimulus that is most important. We created three experimental situations for a standard osteopathic procedure in which patients and practitioner listened either to silence, to the same music in...

introduction: it has shown that listening to mozart music can potentiate spatial tasks in human and reduce seizure attacks in epileptic patients. a few studies have reported the effects of prenatal plus postpartum exposure of mice to the mozart music on brain-drived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) in the hippocampus. here we investigated the effect of postpartum exposure to the mozart music on bdnf ...

+MUS 110 Cr.3 The Listening Experience in Music An introductory course to music listening, with emphasis on methods of perceiving and understanding musical information. Topics include factors in listening, recognition of musical elements and other concepts which contribute to aural perception, and understanding the influence of musical context. The course content will include representative exa...

This article describes three research investigations that focus on the effects of music therapy interventions with different forms of stress and pain. The first study involves music listening strategies for women in labor and delivery; the second tests the impact of eight music listening strategies on depression, anxiety, self-esteem and mood in clinically depressed older adults; the third util...