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- A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundamental function of music has been to help mitigating cognitive dissonances. A cognitive dissonance is "a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions" simultaneously; it usually leads to devaluation of conflicting knowledge.
www.nature.com/articles/npre.2012.7080.1
Apr 2, 2012 · A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundamental function of music has been to help mitigating cognitive dissonances. A cognitive dissonance is "a discomfort caused by holding...
- Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music ...
Recently we have presented experimental evidence 18,19...
- The efficacy of musical emotions provoked by Mozart's music ...
A recent hypothesis 8, experimentally validated here,...
- Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music ...
Jun 19, 2013 · Recently we have presented experimental evidence 18,19 supporting a hypothesis that music has a fundamental cognitive function: to help to mitigate cognitive dissonance.
- Nobuo Masataka, Leonid Perlovsky, Leonid Perlovsky
- 2013
May 1, 2013 · If some music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances, then first, this music should increase the duration during which participants can tolerate stressful conditions while evaluating test choices. Second, this should result in improved performance.
- Leonid Perlovsky, Arnaud Cabanac, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac
- 2013
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.
Sep 25, 2012 · A recent hypothesis 8, experimentally validated here, suggested that music can help mitigating cognitive dissonance and keeping conflicting knowledge in mind. Ancient Greeks knew that...
- Nobuo Masataka, Leonid Perlovsky, Leonid Perlovsky
- 2012
Jun 19, 2013 · We studied whether the influence of music is related to its hedonicity and whether pleasant or unpleasant music would influence scholarly test performance and cognitive dissonance.
A music ability to help keep contradictory cognitions in mind has been demonstrated experimentally in (Masataka & Perlovsky 2012): music has helped young children (4 y.o.a.) to avoid devaluing an attractive toy, while not playing with it.
