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Are Age-Related Differences Between Young and Older Adults in an Affective Working Memory Test Sensitive to the Music Effects?

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2014
There are evidences showing that music can affect cognitive performance by improving our emotional state. The aim of the current study was to analyze whether age-related differences between young and older adults in a Working Memory (WM) Span test in ...
Erika eBorella   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Mozart Effect on the Episodic Memory of Healthy Adults Is Null, but Low-Functioning Older Adults May Be an Exception

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Literature on the effects of passive music listening on cognitive performance is mixed, showing negative, null or positive results depending on cognitive domain, age group, temporal relation between music and task (background music vs. music before task,
Susana Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Mozart Music on Hippocampal Content of BDNF in Postnatal Rats

open access: yesBasic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2011
Introduction: It has shown that listening to Mozart music can potentiate spatial tasks in human; and reduce seizure attacks in epileptic patients. A few studies have reported the effects of prenatal plus postpartum exposure of mice to the Mozart music on
Mohsen Marzban   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Effects of prior exposure to office noise and music on aspects of working memory

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2010
Previous research has suggested that prior exposure to noise reduces the effect of subsequent exposure due to habituation. Similarly, a number of studies have shown that exposure to Mozart′s music leads to better subsequent spatial reasoning performance.
Andrew Smith, Beth Waters, Hywel Jones
doaj   +1 more source

Disentangling the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Creativity: The Role of Conceptual and Experimental Creative Methods

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research has indicated that mindfulness has the potential to enhance individuals' functioning in many ways. However, explorations of its relationship with creativity have elicited contrasting results that remain unresolved, and the underlying processes of this relationship remain unclear.
Aldijana Bunjak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music exposure enhances resistance to Salmonella infection by promoting healthy gut microbiota

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum
Music intervention is gaining recognition as a cost-effective therapeutic for improving human health. Despite its growing application, the mechanisms through which music exerts beneficial health effects remain largely unexplored. Here, we show that music
Clara Y. Zhu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mozart Effect in Musical Fit? A Commentary on Yeoh & North

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2010
Musical fit, the congruence between music and product leading to improved response, is presented as an explanation of differences in recall of food items from two cultures. Musical fit predicts that, in this case, more Indian food items would be recalled
Emery Schubert
doaj   +1 more source

Mozart in the East

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2023
The aim of this paper is to highlight an aspect of Mozart's production that has long been neglected by contemporary musicology: the strong influence of Orientalism in some of the composer's works.
Cecilia Conte
doaj   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

Aggregation and the Structure of Value

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
wiley   +1 more source

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