Cognitive interference can be mitigated by consonant music and facilitated by dissonant music.

• 正高, 信男

• Perlovsky, Leonid

抄録

Debates on the origins of consonance and dissonance in music have a long history. While some scientists argue that consonance judgments are an acquired competence based on exposure to the musical-system-specific knowledge of a particular culture, others favor a biological explanation for the observed preference for consonance. Here we provide experimental confirmation that this preference plays an adaptive role in human cognition: it reduces cognitive interference. The results of our experiment reveal that exposure to a Mozart minuet mitigates interference, whereas, conversely, when the music is modified to consist of mostly dissonant intervals the interference effect is intensified.

収録刊行物

• Scientific reports

  Scientific reports 3 2013-06-19

  Nature Publishing Group

キーワード

• Evolution of language
• Cognitive ageing
• Attention
• Language

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050001335772544128
• NII論文ID: 120005300465
• ISSN: 20452322
• HANDLE: 2433/176332
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
• データソース種別:
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles