Reopening the Conversation Between Music Psychology and Music Therapy

Music therapy and sleep cycle

Sleep is a basic behavior in humans. There are some research reports on the cyclical patterns of different types of sleep and their relationship to breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and other physical function. More recently, scientific research has begun to show how music therapy interacts with relaxation and sleep cycle. This research is focusing on the following hypotheses: 1. Music could ...

Music therapy and sleep cycle

Sleep is a basic behavior in humans. There are some research reports on the cyclical patterns of different types of sleep and their relationship to breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and other physical function. More recently, scientific research has begun to show how music therapy interacts with relaxation and sleep cycle. This research is focusing on the following hypotheses: 1. Music could ...

The Psychology of Music

The psychology of music is a subfield of psychology that addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls the performance of, and evaluates music. The history of this sub field has been greatly influenced by the major trends and develop­ ments in the parent discipline, and the organization of this chapter follows the tradi tional rubrics of that history. Earlier in the twenti...

The Psychology of Music

The Psychology of Music

Music is a species-specific communication system that develops under a complex set of genetic constraints and environmental input. As with language, some features of musical perception, such as the use of hierarchical pitch and time structures to organize successive sound events, appear to be essentially universal and rest on general capacities and constraints of the human nervous system. And, ...