This paper constructs a tree structure for the music rhythm using the L-system. It models the structure as an automata and derives its complexity. It also solves the complexity for the L-system. This complexity can resolve the similarity between trees. This complexity serves as a measure of psychological complexity for rhythms. It resolves the music complexity of various compositions including ...

Music is a unique product of human culture. The idea of music having therapeutic effects on human health and behavior is as ancient as the writings of Aristotle and Plato. The therapeutic potential of music has largely been explored in cognitive science. Since the scientific report of the ‘‘Mozart effect’’ was published by Rauscher et al, much attention has been given to the therapeutic role of...

We explore a possibility that the 'Mozart effect' points to a fundamental cognitive function of music. Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution. We studied whether th...

Listening to music has been found to reduce acute and chronic pain. The underlying mechanisms are poorly understood; however, emotion and cognitive mechanisms have been suggested to influence the analgesic effect of music. In this study we investigated the influence of familiarity, emotional and cognitive features, and cognitive style on music-induced analgesia. Forty-eight healthy participants...

Citation: Mehr SA (2015) Miscommunication of science: music cognition research in the popular press. In December 2013, my colleagues and I published the null results of two randomized trials investigating effects of brief parent-child music enrichment on preschoolers' cognitive skills (Mehr et al., 2013). Fully aware of the limitations of our studies, including, of course, that a failure to rej...

Purpose: This research attempts to conduct a careful study of the influence political, social, and industrial dynamics in Indonesia, which gave birth forms products music education. Method: uses multidisciplinary cultural approach as object researched is multidimensional. In its title, there are some entities: education, industry, lifestyle. Results discussion: As with (culture) itself, inciden...

The most perfunctory survey of the biographical literature devoted to Mozart – from the late eighteenth century to the present day – reveals an avid curiosity into the composer’s life history, perhaps a compulsive tendency to situate and contextualise his music. Although Mozart’s music might be clearly intelligible without knowledge of either his life or his eighteenth-century environment – twi...

Music has been used for thousands of years as a means of emotional expression. The goals of this paper are to (a) review current literature on how music induces emotion (b) explore the mechanisms of how this happens both physiologically and psychologically and (c) to look at the role of desired effect and musical preference to move towards a general conclusion of what drives listeners’ musical ...