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  2. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

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    Active mood is another factor that affects music preference. Generally whether people are in a good or bad mood when they hear music affects how they feel about the type of music and also their emotional response. [20] On that line of thinking, aggression has been shown to improve creativity and emotional intensity derived from music.

  3. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  4. Biomusicology - Wikipedia

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    Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view. The term was coined by Nils L. Wallin in 1991 to encompass several branches of music psychology and musicology, including evolutionary musicology, neuromusicology, and comparative musicology.

  5. Music psychology - Wikipedia

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    A primary focus of music psychology research concerns how best to teach music and the effects this has on childhood development. Including: optimizing music education; development of musical behaviors and abilities throughout the lifespan; the specific skills and processes involved in learning a musical instrument or singing

  6. This Is Your Brain on Music - Wikipedia

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    This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, and first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and updated and released in paperback by Plume/Penguin in 2007.

  7. Music and sleep - Wikipedia

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    Music improved sleep quality with increased exposure regardless of differences in the demographic, music genre, duration of treatment, and exposure frequency. Dickson suggests "listening to music that you find relaxing, at the same time, every night for at least three weeks".

  8. Hypersonic effect - Wikipedia

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    The 2006 study also investigated the comfortable listening level (CLL) of music with and without HFCs, an alternative way of measuring subject response to the sound. The CLL for the music with HFCs was higher than that for the music without HFCs - this provides a quantitative way to demonstrate general listener preference for the music with HFCs.

  9. Mozart effect - Wikipedia

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    The Mozart effect is the theory that listening to the music of Mozart may temporarily boost scores on one portion of an IQ test. Popular science versions of the theory make the claim that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter" or that early childhood exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on mental development.