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The art of music psychology is to bring rigorous scientific methodologies to questions about the human musical capacity while applying sophisticated humanistic approaches to framing and interpreting the science.
This narrative review seeks to clarify and critically assess the significant contributions of empirical research in music psychology and music neuroscience to our understanding of both ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
2 paź 2014 · This chapter explores relationships between music and meaning, and between music and ideas of meaning. It reviews conceptualizations of meaning in general before surveying the ways in which meaning has been attributed to music in the course of Western intellectual history, providing a framework within which the privileging of the notion of the ...
This article presents an overview of theories of meaning that have been, and that may be, applicable to investigating music, particularly its cognitive dimensions. Some theories have had more impact on the scientific exploration of music's significance than others, which have been unduly neglected. Theoretical and empirical research into ...
31 gru 2013 · MUSIC is often regarded as the 'language of the emotions' (Cooke, 1995), and empirical research into musical emotions has been conducted since the early 20th century (e.g., Handbook of Music...
24 lip 2013 · The psychology of music seeks to interpret musical phenomena in terms of mental function; that is, it seeks to characterize the ways in which people perceive, remember, perform, create, and respond to music.
Music is a complex phenomenon with multiple brain areas and neural connections being implicated. Centuries ago, music was discovered as an efficient modality for psychological status enrichment and even for the treatment of multiple pathologies.