Exploring the Role of Music in Cognitive Processes
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 971
Special Issue Editor
2. ECONA*, Interuniversity Centre for the Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems, Rome, Italy
Interests: psychology of time; psychology of rhythm; psychology of music; embodied cognition; dynamic models of cognitive processes; consciousness; adaptation and adjustment; neuroimaging of cognitive processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Music processing, either consciously or unconsciously, yields negative or positive emotions as well as affecting cognition in terms of attention, memory, problem-solving, decision-making, creativity, and so on.
In its three modalities, Composition, Performance, and Listening, music aims to realize an emotional communication. Its scope is therefore to determine a corresponding emotional state in the recipient of the shared communication. Since music is a highly dynamic process occurring in the mind of the musician and/or the listener, existing only when experienced, it requires the contribution and integration of different disciplines and methods to be clarified.
To investigate the multifaceted effects of the communication that forms the musical experience, both in the communicator and the recipient, all the cognitive processes involved in the musical experience, in their behavioral and psychophysiological manifestations, as to their possible application in clinic and education, will be considered in this e-topic collection.
The present Special Issue invites studies focusing on the different effects of music on the variety of facets of both emotion and cognition. The studies should consider both healthy people and individuals with health problems. Both advanced experimental research and reviews in this field are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- music processing
- dynamic processes
- cognitive processes
- shared communication
- emotions
- attention
- memory
- problem-solving
- decision-making
- creativity
