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Mar 1, 2018 · Here we explore the mechanism of how music influences cognition. The main novel contribution of this paper is that music helps to overcome cognitive dissonance.
- Leonid Perlovsky
In one early experiment testing the theory, Mills (1958) used dissonance theory to test how behaving in an honest or dishonest (cheating) manner would influence attitudes toward honesty. In the experiment, sixth-grade students first completed a measure of attitudes toward cheating.
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May 1, 2013 · This paper explored two important and fascinating areas of human mind: music, its cognitive function, its origin, and cognitive dissonances. Each area deserves studying its deep multifaceted cognitive mechanisms and functions.
- Leonid Perlovsky, Arnaud Cabanac, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac
- 2013
Then, neuroscientific studies using music to investigate emotion, perception-action me-diation (“mirror function”), and social cognition are reviewed, including illustrations of the relevance of these domains for music therapy. Key words: music therapy; neuroscience; emotion; mirror function; social cognition.
cognitive function of music? Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution (Perlovsky, 2010, 2012).
Apr 2, 2012 · Here we explore the mechanism of how music influences cognition. The main novel contribution of this paper is that music helps to overcome cognitive dissonance.
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In 1954 Dr. Leon Festinger first posited a theory of cognitive dissonance to describe the psychological phenomenon that occurs in these situations. In the years since, cognitive dissonance has become a central pillar of psychological theory, as was documented in the first edition of this book.