Facing the music

Ball, Philip

doi:10.1038/453160a

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“…Listening to music often connects thoughts and emotions and, therefore, is associated with questions surrounding consciousness and “Theory of Mind” (the ability to understand the intentions and emotional state of others)678. However, little is understood about how listening to music affects the brain91011.…”

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Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem

Wilkins

Hodges

Laurienti

et al. 2014

Sci Rep

115

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Most people choose to listen to music that they prefer or ‘like’ such as classical, country or rock. Previous research has focused on how different characteristics of music (i.e., classical versus country) affect the brain. Yet, when listening to preferred music—regardless of the type—people report they often experience personal thoughts and memories. To date, understanding how this occurs in the brain has remained elusive. Using network science methods, we evaluated differences in functional brain connectivity when individuals listened to complete songs. We show that a circuit important for internally-focused thoughts, known as the default mode network, was most connected when listening to preferred music. We also show that listening to a favorite song alters the connectivity between auditory brain areas and the hippocampus, a region responsible for memory and social emotion consolidation. Given that musical preferences are uniquely individualized phenomena and that music can vary in acoustic complexity and the presence or absence of lyrics, the consistency of our results was unexpected. These findings may explain why comparable emotional and mental states can be experienced by people listening to music that differs as widely as Beethoven and Eminem. The neurobiological and neurorehabilitation implications of these results are discussed.

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Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem

Wilkins

Hodges

Laurienti

et al. 2014

Sci Rep

115

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“…However, the present system uses tones and semi-tones to make use of the equal-tempered scale of MIDI for listening to the outputs. In fact, use of equal-tempered instruments like harmonium by nonclassical performers of Indian music is quite common and our ears do not seem to object to the adjustments that equal temperament demands, as also noted elsewhere in another context (Ball, 2008). Now, in a particular thaat we have two options for each of five notes other than Sa and Pa, and hence the total number of possible thaats that can be constructed, with each note of an octave in any form, is 32.…”

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“…He observed moments of creative insight that were related to Gestalt theory problem restructuring. The use of gestalt principle by the human brain in sound perception and its influence on music composition has also been noted elsewhere (Ball, 2008).…”

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Artificial Composition: An Experiment on Indian Music

Sinha¹

2008

Journal of New Music Research

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It has been attempted to develop a neurocomputing paradigm for artificial music composition in Indian style. A musical organization, comprising a melodic pattern, a rhythmic pattern and a melody violation part, has been considered for this purpose. A simple feed forward hybrid neural network with a functional link hidden layer has been so designed as to integrate such a musical organization with Indian raga rules. The proposed artificial neural network can output a variety of compositions on any raga by generating random link weights that shape the musical organization in various ways within the freedom available in the raga framework. The neural network can be customized with specifications of any raga for outputting a large variety of musical sequences that abide by the particular raga rules. In an interactive mode, a musician user may compose non-classical and light classical songs in Indian style based on desired ragas. An evaluation of such outputs from the system on Hindustani music, as done by a group of musicians, is encouraging. The present system, when run in an ''Auto Mode'', may also serve as a generator of ''semi-finished'' music for composing music of non-traditional structure.

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“…In 2008, Nature published a series of essays on music authored by authorities in evolutionary psychology [134]. The authors agreed that music is a cross-cultural universal, still “none... has yet been able to answer the fundamental question: why does music have such power over us?”, “We might start by accepting that it is fruitless to try to define ‘music’” [135]. …”

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Brain. Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms of Cognition, Emotions, and Language

Perlovsky

Ilin

2012

Brain Sciences

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Conscious and unconscious brain mechanisms, including cognition, emotions and language are considered in this review. The fundamental mechanisms of cognition include interactions between bottom-up and top-down signals. The modeling of these interactions since the 1960s is briefly reviewed, analyzing the ubiquitous difficulty: incomputable combinatorial complexity (CC). Fundamental reasons for CC are related to the Gödel’s difficulties of logic, a most fundamental mathematical result of the 20th century. Many scientists still “believed” in logic because, as the review discusses, logic is related to consciousness; non-logical processes in the brain are unconscious. CC difficulty is overcome in the brain by processes “from vague-unconscious to crisp-conscious” (representations, plans, models, concepts). These processes are modeled by dynamic logic, evolving from vague and unconscious representations toward crisp and conscious thoughts. We discuss experimental proofs and relate dynamic logic to simulators of the perceptual symbol system. “From vague to crisp” explains interactions between cognition and language. Language is mostly conscious, whereas cognition is only rarely so; this clarifies much about the mind that might seem mysterious. All of the above involve emotions of a special kind, aesthetic emotions related to knowledge and to cognitive dissonances. Cognition-language-emotional mechanisms operate throughout the hierarchy of the mind and create all higher mental abilities. The review discusses cognitive functions of the beautiful, sublime, music.

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Facing the music

Cited by 40 publications

References 3 publications

Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem

Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem

Artificial Composition: An Experiment on Indian Music

Brain. Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms of Cognition, Emotions, and Language

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