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The third dimension (eigenvalue: 10.2%) includes statements about the use of music as background entertainment and diversion (e.g., music is a great pastime; music can take my mind off things) and as a means to get into a positive mood and regulate one's physiological arousal (e.g., music can make me cheerful; music helps me relax; music makes me more alert).
In order to motivate these claims, there is need of bottom–up evolutionary, and mainly adaptationist proposals in search of the origins of aesthetic experiences of music, starting from the identification of universal musical features that are observable in all cultures of the world (Brattico et al., 2009–2010). The exquisite sensitivity of our species to emotional sounds, e.g., may ...
Theoretical and empirical research into musical meaning is still at an early stage within the cognitive sciences; it is important that multiple perspectives on meaning in music, particularly those emerging from the study of music in non-Western contexts, are taken fully into account in future explorations of musical meaning within the cognitive sciences.
Oct 2, 2014 · Abstract. 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 aesthetic in philosophical treatments of ...
May 17, 2023 · Whether music-related psychological responses evolved as specialized cognitive adaptations is unknown. In this Review, Singh and Mehr find evidence for universality and early expression of ...
Music is a core human experience and generative processes reflect cognitive capabilities. Music is often functional because it is something that can promote human well-being by facilitating human contact, human meaning, and human imagination of possibilities, tying it to our social instincts.
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Oct 11, 2012 · 1.1. Music as fundamental, universal, and ubiquitous human trait. Like language, music is a universal human trait existing in all cultures across the world. Despite huge diversity, “every known human society has what trained musicologists would recognize as ‘music’” (Blacking, 1995, p. 224; see also Bohlman, 1999; Wallin, 1991). Music ...
