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How do film-makers manipulate our emotions with music?
BBC Arts & Culture has an article with the above title which cites a couple of music cognition studies. The BBC is currently airing a program called Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies which you can watch if … Continue reading
Do informal musical activities shape auditory skill development in preschool-age children?
This article reviews the literature regarding the effect of “musically active” families on the musical development of children, and takes the position that based on the research, early music activities (including with infants) can affect children’s ability to learn, or, … Continue reading
Two articles from the July 2013 issue of Psychology of Music
The July 2013 issue of Psychology of Music is available online (although it’s behind a paywall in most databases). I summarized the abstracts of a couple of the more interesting-sounding articles below, but you can check out the full table … Continue reading
A rundown on recent music news & blog posts
While I’m excited about the relatively new Music Cognition U: A Resource Center, it seems that just grabbing a news feed may not be the best way to ensure that you’re always providing relevant articles. For example, a recent post … Continue reading
Psychology of Music November 2012
The major articles published in the latest Psychology of Music are listed below. You can see the complete table of contents here: http://pom.sagepub.com/content/40/6.toc Authors: Marion Long, Susan Hallam, Andrea Creech, Helena Gaunt, and Linnhe Robertson Title: Do prior experience, gender, … Continue reading
Music Cognition Table of Contents for Topics in Cognitive Science
One-third of the October 2012 issue of Topics in Cognitive Science is devoted to the question “Why should music be of interest to cognitive scientists?” (as blogged by Henkjan Honing at Music Matters. While I read the abstracts of several … Continue reading
Music and Early Language Acquisition
Authors: Anthony Brandt, Molly Gebrian and L. Robert Slevc Publication: Frontiers in Psychology Publication volume & issue: vol 3 no. 00327 Year: 2012 Link: http://www.frontiersin.org/Auditory_Cognitive_Neuroscience/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00327/full DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00327 From the abstract: “…we argue that it is more productive from a developmental … Continue reading
Composing by Listening: A Computer-Assisted System for Creating Emotional Music
Authors: Quinto, Lena and William Forde Thompson. Publication: International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) Publication volume & issue: vol. 3 issue 2 (2012) pages 48-67. Link: http://www.igi-global.com/article/composing-listening-computer-assisted-system/70417 DOI: 10.4018/jse.2012070103 (http://dx.doi.org/ doesn’t recognize this DOI). Abstract: Most people communicate emotion through their … Continue reading
Now for the Weird Al perspective…
Weird Al answers the question “Why is music so powerful?f”
Hearing and the Mind
The Brian Lehrer Show has an interview with Seth Horowitz about his book, The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind. The podcast is online here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2012/sep/17/hearing-and-mind/
Mind Over Music 