Arousal, Mood, and The Mozart Effect

By William Forde Thompson, E. G. Schellenberg, Gabriela Husain. Psychology Science, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Exercising Your Brain: A Review of Human Brain Plasticity and Training-Induced Learning (2008, neutral): “Vygotsky’s (1978) “zone of proximal development” corresponds well with the skill learning literature discussed above.”
Liking unfamiliar music: Effects of felt emotion and individual differences. (2012, background): “Previous findings highlighted contextual differences that eliminate the usual preference for happy- over sad-sounding music (Gosselin et al., 2005; Hunter et al., 2008, 2010; Husain et al., 2002; Schellenberg et al., 2008; Thompson et al., 2001), such as when listeners are fatigued by an arduous tas”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “In support of this idea, they point to prior research with healthy individuals that finds links between musicinduced positive arousal/mood and performance on nonmusical cognitive tasks (e.g., Thompson et al., 2001).”
Mixed affective responses to music with conflicting cues (2008, background): “In line with this view (and with results from Husain et al., 2002; Thompson et al., 2001), we predicted that happy and pleasant ratings would be correlated positively, as would sad and unpleasant ratings, but that the latter correlation would be smaller than the former.”
Music Lessons Enhance IQ (2004, background): “When evident, it can be attributed to differences in arousal and mood generated by the different testing conditions (Husain, Thompson, & Schellenberg, 2002; Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999; Thompson, Schellenberg, & Husain, 2001 ).”
Feelings and Perceptions of Happiness and Sadness Induced by Music: Similarities, Differences, and Mixed Emotions (2010, background): “Our results also shed light on an issue that was tangential to our central goals: why do listeners like sad music? Although experimental participants routinely prefer happy- over sad-sounding music (Gosselin et al., 2005; Hunter et al., 2008; Husain et al., 2002; Khalfa et al., 2008; Schellenberg et”
Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Review (2006, neutral): “ME (Chabris, 1999; Husain et al., 2002; McKelvie & Low, 2002; Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999; Steele, 2003; Steele, Bass, & Crook, 1999; Steele, Brown, & Stoecker, 1999; Thompson et al., 2001; Twomey & Esgate, 2002).”
Individual music listening in workplace settings (2011, background): “Cognitive tasks generally benefit from moderate levels of arousal but can be impaired by extreme levels (Daoussis & McKelvie, 1986; Furnham & Allass, 1999; Furnham & Bradley, 1997; Furnham et al., 1999; Kiger, 1989; Ransdell & Gilroy, 2001; Salamé & Baddeley, 1989; Thompson et al., 2001).”
Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke. (2008, background): “This is in line with the arousal and mood hypothesis (Thompson et al., 2001), which states that any enjoyable stimuli, such as music, that induces positive affect and heightened arousal can lead to improved performance on cognitive tasks.”
Background music can aid second language learning (2014, background): “…et al., 2012); however, the presence of low complex music (non-verbal; stable tonality; minimal changes in tempo and amplitude) has been associated with improvements in task performance (Furnham & Alas, 1999; Jones et al., 2006; Schellenberg, 2005; Schellenberg et al., 2007; Thompson et al., 2001).”
Long-Term Positive Associations between Music Lessons and IQ. (2006, background): “For adults, listening to a recording by Mozart or Schubert can lead to improved performance on subtests (spatial or otherwise) from standardized IQ tests (Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999; Schellenberg t al., in press; Thompson et al., 2001).”