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- Musical pleasure. The enjoyment of music appears to involve the same pleasure center in the brain as other forms of pleasure, such as food, sex, and drugs.
- Musical anticipation. Music can be experienced as pleasurable both when it fulfills and violates expectations. The more unexpected the events in music, the more surprising is the musical experience (Gebauer & Kringelbach, 2012).
- Refined emotions. There is also an intellectual component to the appreciation for music. The dopamine systems do not work in isolation, and their influence will be largely dependent on their interaction with other regions of the brain.
- Memories. Memories are one of the important ways in which musical events evoke emotions. As the late physician Oliver Sacks has noted, musical emotions and musical memory can survive long after other forms of memory have disappeared.
Music has the ability to take us out of ourselves. A recent study by Ruth Herbert at the U.K.’s Open University (Herbert, 2011) is one of the few to examine the psychological...
The art of music psychology is to bring rigorous scientific methodologies to questions about the human musical capacity while applying sophisticated humanistic approaches to framing and interpreting the science.
May 8, 2024 · Abstract. The rhythmic elements of music are integral to experiences such as singing, musical emotions, the urge to dance and playing a musical instrument. Thus, studies of musical rhythm are an...
Dec 20, 2011 · Abstract. Dissociative experiences involving music have received little research attention outside the field of ethnomusicology. This paper examines the psychological characteristics of normative dissociation (detachment) across musical and non-musical experiences in ‘real world’, everyday settings. It draws upon a subset of data arising ...
Jul 24, 2013 · The psychology of music seeks to interpret musical phenomena in terms of mental function; that is, it seeks to characterize the ways in which people perceive, remember, perform, create, and respond to music.
Oct 2, 2014 · Musical preference has been defined as “a person’s liking for one piece of music as compared with another at a given point in time” while taste is held to reflect “the overall patterning of an individual’s preferences over longer time periods” (Hargreaves, North and Tarrant, 2006, p. 135).
