MUSIC 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prefrontal Cortex, White Noise, Music Therapy
10 Dec 2018
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Emotion: brief but intense affective reaction that usually involves a number of sub-components-subjective feeling, physiological arousal, expression, action tendency, and regulation - that are more or less. Emotions focus on specific "objects" and last mins to a few hours. Listeners show significant changes in valence and arousal (measures of emotion) while listening to music. Music and individual differences: what might predict for listener preference or reactions to music, personality (lewis, 2001, mood (dodorico, 2006, age (cohrdes, frisch, riediger & wrzus, 2017) Alzheimer"s: therapeutic singing in geriatrics, reminiscing, music is not "prescriptive" Evoked emotion: music arouses emotions 55-56% of the time on average, however there are wide individual differences in overall prevalence, most frequently reported aroused emotions are, calm-relaxation, happiness-joy, nostalgia-longing, pleasure-enjoyment. Expressed emotion: clinical improvisation: the "heart of the matter is acknowledging the reality of a person"s emotions and feelings, and giving a response on the feeling level"
