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1. Non-expert listeners show decreased heart rate and increased blood pressure (fear bradycardia) in response to atonal music

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Proverbio, A, Manfrin, L, Arcari, L, De Benedetto, F, Gazzola, M, Guardamagna, M, Lozano Nasi, V, Zani, A, PROVERBIO, ALICE MADO, Zani, A., Proverbio, A, Manfrin, L, Arcari, L, De Benedetto, F, Gazzola, M, Guardamagna, M, Lozano Nasi, V, Zani, A, PROVERBIO, ALICE MADO, and Zani, A.

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Previous studies suggested that listening to different types of music may modulate differently psychological mood and physiological responses associated with the induced emotions. In this study the effect of listening to instrumental classical vs. atonal contemporary music was examined in a group of 50 non-expert listeners. The subjects' heart rate and diastolic and systolic blood pressure values were measured while they listened to music of different style and emotional typologies. Pieces were selected by asking a group of composers and conservatory professors to suggest a list of the most emotional music pieces (from Renaissance to present time). A total of 214 suggestions from 20 respondents were received. Then it was asked them to identify which pieces best induced in the listener feelings of agitation, joy or pathos and the number of suggested pieces per style was computed. Atonal pieces were more frequently indicated as agitating, and tonal pieces as joyful. The presence/absence of tonality in a musical piece did not affect the affective dimension of pathos (being touching). Among the most frequently cited six pieces were selected that were comparable for structure and style, to represent each emotion and style. They were equally evaluated as unfamiliar by an independent group of 10 students of the same cohort) and were then used as stimuli for the experimental session in which autonomic parameters were recorded. Overall, listening to atonal music (independent of the pieces' emotional characteristics) was associated with a reduced heart rate (fear bradycardia) and increased blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic), possibly reflecting an increase in alertness and attention, psychological tension, and anxiety. This evidence fits with the results of the esthetical assessment showing how, overall, atonal music is perceived as more agitating and less joyful than tonal one.

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2015

2. Non-expert listeners show decreased heart rate and increased blood pressure (fear bradycardia) in response to atonal music

Author

Martina Gazzola, Luigi Manfrin, Laura A. Arcari, Alice Mado Proverbio, Matteo Guardamagna, Valentina Lozano Nasi, Alberto Zani, Francesco De Benedetto, Proverbio, A. M., Manfrin, L., Arcari, L. A., De Benedetto, F., Gazzola, M., Guardamagna, M., Nasi, V. L., Zani, A., Proverbio, A, Manfrin, L, Arcari, L, De Benedetto, F, Gazzola, M, Guardamagna, M, Lozano Nasi, V, and Zani, A

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medicine.medical_specialty, Contemporary classical music, music perception, media_common.quotation_subject, Emotions, Heart rate, lcsh:BF1-990, Blood Pressure, Audiology, Affect (psychology), M-PSI/02 - PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA, emotions, behavioral disciplines and activities, neuroesthetics, empirical musicology, medicine, heart rate, Psychology, Active listening, music cognition, psychophysiology, Tonality, listening, General Psychology, auditory processing, media_common, Original Research, autonomic nervous system (ANS), Music psychology, neuroesthetics, music perception, heart rate, dissonance, auditory processing, emotions, empirical musicology, psychophysiology, dissonance, Auditory processing, humanities, Mood, lcsh:Psychology, Feeling, neuroaesthetics, Dissonance, neuroscience of music, Anxiety, Neuroesthetics, Empirical musicology, Music perception, medicine.symptom, feelings, Social psychology, Psychophysiology
Abstract

Previous studies suggested that listening to different types of music may modulate differently psychological mood and physiological responses associated with the induced emotions. In this study the effect of listening to instrumental classical vs. atonal contemporary music was examined in a group of 50 non-expert listeners. The subjects’ heart rate and diastolic and systolic blood pressure values were measured while they listened to music of different style and emotional typologies. Pieces were selected by asking a group of composers and conservatory professors to suggest a list of the most emotional music pieces (from Renaissance to present time). A total of 214 suggestions from 20 respondents was received. Then it was asked them to identify which pieces best induced in the listener feelings of agitation, joy or pathos and the number of suggested pieces per style was computed. Atonal pieces were more frequently indicated as agitating, and tonal pieces as joyful. The presence/absence of tonality in a musical piece did not affect the affective dimension of pathos (being touching). Among the most frequently cited six pieces were selected that were comparable for structure and style, to represent each emotion and style. They were equally evaluated as unfamiliar by an independent group of 10 students of the same cohort) and were then used as stimuli for the experimental session in which autonomic parameters were recorded. Overall, listening to atonal music (independent of the pieces’ emotional characteristics) was associated with a reduced heart rate (fear bradycardia) and increased blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic), possibly reflecting an increase in alertness and attention, psychological tension, and anxiety. This evidence fits with the results of the aesthetical assessment showing how, overall, atonal music is perceived as more agitating and less joyful than tonal one.

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2015
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3. The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity.

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Proverbio AM, Lozano Nasi V, Alessandra Arcari L, De Benedetto F, Guardamagna M, Gazzola M, and Zani A

Subjects
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Blood Pressure physiology, Face, Female, Heart Rate physiology, Humans, Male, Reaction Time, Visual Perception, Young Adult, Memory, Episodic, Music
Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate how background auditory processing can affect other perceptual and cognitive processes as a function of stimulus content, style and emotional nature. Previous studies have offered contrasting evidence, and it has been recently shown that listening to music negatively affected concurrent mental processing in the elderly but not in young adults. To further investigate this matter, the effect of listening to music vs. listening to the sound of rain or silence was examined by administering an old/new face memory task (involving 448 unknown faces) to a group of 54 non-musician university students. Heart rate and diastolic and systolic blood pressure were measured during an explicit face study session that was followed by a memory test. The results indicated that more efficient and faster recall of faces occurred under conditions of silence or when participants were listening to emotionally touching music. Whereas auditory background (e.g., rain or joyful music) interfered with memory encoding, listening to emotionally touching music improved memory and significantly increased heart rate. It is hypothesized that touching music is able to modify the visual perception of faces by binding facial properties with auditory and emotionally charged information (music), which may therefore result in deeper memory encoding.

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2015
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