Archive for January, 2010
January 31st, 2010 18:01:11
The Effect of Expressive and Instrumental Touch on The Behavior States of Older Adults with Late-Stage Dementia of The Alzheimer’s Type and on Music Therapist’s Perceived Rapport.
| Related Articles |
The Effect of Expressive and Instrumental Touch on The Behavior States of Older Adults with Late-Stage Dementia of The Alzheimer’s Type and on Music Therapist’s Perceived Rapport.
J Music Ther. 2009;46(2):132-46
Authors: Belgrave M
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music therapy interventions utilizing two types of touch, expressive touch and instrumental touch, on the behavior states of older adults who have late-stage dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. A secondary purpose of this study was to examine the perceived effectiveness of the music therapist when expressive and instrumental touch was employed during music therapy sessions. A within-subject design was used with 9 participants receiving 3 sessions in each of the experimental conditions: no touch, expressive touch, and instrumental touch. Results of a one-way ANOVA revealed that expressive touch was significantly more effective during the initial session in eliciting and maintaining alert behavior states than the instrumental and control conditions; however, there were no significant differences between the experimental and control conditions during the first and second session repetitions. Rapport ratings revealed that the therapist’s client rapport was perceived to be significantly higher during both the expressive touch and instrumental touch conditions than during the control condition. These findings have important implications for music therapy practice and the effective use of nonverbal communication.
PMID: 19463031 [PubMed - in process]
January 31st, 2010 15:01:52
Part IV introduction: musical memory: music is memory.
Part IV introduction: musical memory: music is memory.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jul;1169:214-5
Authors: Tillmann B
PMID: 19673784 [PubMed - in process]
January 30th, 2010 1:01:23
Crossmodal transfer of emotion by music.
| Related Articles |
Crossmodal transfer of emotion by music.
Neurosci Lett. 2009 May 15;455(2):129-33
Authors: Logeswaran N, Bhattacharya J
Music is one of the most powerful elicitors of subjective emotion, yet it is not clear whether emotions elicited by music are similar to emotions elicited by visual stimuli. This leads to an open question: can music-elicited emotion be transferred to and/or influence subsequent vision-elicited emotional processing? Here we addressed this question by investigating processing of emotional faces (neutral, happy and sad) primed by short excerpts of musical stimuli (happy and sad). Our behavioural experiment showed a significant effect of musical priming: prior listening to a happy (sad) music enhanced the perceived happiness (sadness) of a face irrespective of facial emotion. Further, this musical priming-induced effect was largest for neutral face. Our electrophysiological experiment showed that such crossmodal priming effects were manifested by event related brain potential components at a very early (within 100ms post-stimulus) stages of neuronal information processing. Altogether, these results offer new insight into the crossmodal nature of music and its ability to transfer emotion to visual modality.
PMID: 19368861 [PubMed - in process]
MegaSimple.com
848 N Rainbow Blvd #1289, Las Vegas, NV 89107 1.866.352.4346
support@megasimple.com