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  1. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleMozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music

    May 1, 2013 · Music helps overcoming cognitive dissonance and hold contradictory knowledge. This might be fundamental for human evolution and ability to think. The ‘Mozart effect’ might be caused by overcoming cognitive dissonance. Students reduce thinking time during stressful tests, but music reverses this. A ‘mystery of music’ might be due to ...

    • Leonid Perlovsky, Arnaud Cabanac, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac
    • 2013

  2. www.weforum.org › stories › 2015Why does music affect our brains? | World Economic Forum

    Mar 26, 2015 · Several experiments have proven music’s ability to help us overcome cognitive dissonances and retain contradictory knowledge. For example, in one experiment, an experimenter gave a group of four-year-old boys five popular Pokemon toys. Playing with each boy individually, she had them rank, one by one, their preferences for the five toys.

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  4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 322477360Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Pleasure of Music

    Feb 1, 2013 · The 'Mozart effect' might be caused by overcoming cognitive dissonance. Students reduce thinking time during stressful tests, but music reverses this.

  5. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleMusic and academic performance - ScienceDirect

    Nov 1, 2013 · Our results have suggested that the ‘Mozart effect’ is caused by overcoming cognitive dissonance during academic tests. This short-time effect could be a small part of the musical cognitive function. A fundamental cognitive function of music could be its facilitation of accumulating knowledge.

    • Arnaud Cabanac, Leonid Perlovsky, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac
    • 2013

  6. arxiv.org › pdf › 1209Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and Origins of Music

    music is related to its hedonicity and whether pleasant or unpleasant music would influence scholarly test performance and cognitive dissonance. Specific hypotheses evaluated in this study are that during a test students experience contradictory cognitions that cause cognitive dissonances.

  7. www.researchgate.net › publication › 323948294_Music(PDF) Music and cognitive dissonance - ResearchGate

    Mar 1, 2018 · A music ability to help holding contradictory cognitions has been demonstrated experimentally in [24, 25]: music has helped young children (4 y.o.a.) to avoid devaluing an attractive toy,...

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  9. www.nature.com › articles › npreMusic can reduce cognitive dissonance | Nature Precedings

    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 conflicting...