Archive for June, 2007
June 18th, 2007 20:06:45
The effects of music exposure and own genre preference on conscious and unconscious cognitive processes: A pilot ERP study.
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The effects of music exposure and own genre preference on conscious and unconscious cognitive processes: A pilot ERP study.
Conscious Cogn. 2006 Aug 22;
Authors: Caldwell GN, Riby LM
Did Beethoven and Mozart have more in common with each other than Clapton and Hendrix? The current research demonstrated the widely reported Mozart Effect as only partly significant. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 16 professional classical and rock musicians during a standard 2 stimulus visual oddball task, while listening to classical and rock music. During the oddball task participants were required to discriminate between an infrequent target stimulus randomly embedded in a train of repetitive background or standard stimuli. Consistent with previous research, the P3 and N2 ERPs were elicited in response to the infrequent target stimuli. Own genre preference resulted in a reduction in amplitude of the P3 for classical musicians exposed to classical music and rock musicians exposed to rock music. Notably, at the pre-attentive stage of processing (N2) beneficial effects of exposure to classical music were observed for both groups of musicians. These data are discussed in terms of short and long-term music benefits on both conscious and unconscious cognitive processes.
PMID: 16931056 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
June 18th, 2007 11:06:50
Music and physical activity in psychological well-being.
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Music and physical activity in psychological well-being.
Percept Mot Skills. 2006 Aug;103(1):285-95
Authors: Macone D, Baldari C, Zelli A, Guidetti L
The present study was designed to examine the effects of listening to music during exercise of moderate intensity on mood, state anxiety, and time to exhaustion as well as to evaluate sex differences in 27 physically active (14 men, 13 women) subjects between the ages of 20 and 30 years. Participants completed the Profile of Mood States and the State Anxiety Inventory before and after treadmill running in Music and No music conditions. Music and No Music conditions were randomly assigned, and participants exercised at 75% of their Heart Rate Reserve until voluntary exhaustion. Analysis indicated participants reported statistically significant mean changes on Tension, Depression, Fatigue, Confusion, and State Anxiety. However, the findings for emotions yielded no significant effect of music, except findings suggested that women, but not men, reported greater mean Fatigue after exercising in the presence of music than in its absence. Also, there was a statistically significant finding suggesting that women exercised longer with music than without.
PMID: 17037673 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
June 14th, 2007 10:06:51
Music education and performing arts medicine: the state of the alliance.
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Music education and performing arts medicine: the state of the alliance.
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2006 Nov;17(4):877-91, viii
Authors: Palac JA, Grimshaw DN
As a group, musicians tend to be somewhat disembodied; their awareness of their whole selves extends almost exclusively to the parts involved directly with musical technique. Even though many consider musicians to be small muscle athletes, it is unusual to see a group of beginning musicians working out or warming up on their practice field, or having a trainer present to supervise their movements or their mental performance orientation, as one would in sports. Several questions come to mind. How has this state of things come about? What do musicians know about the mental, spiritual, and physical attributes they bring to music making? What do music teachers teach students about wellness? How can a collaboration of the fields of music education and rehabilitation medicine approach these issues? This article addresses these questions.
PMID: 17097487 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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