[Can musical feeling be measured? (author's transl)]

Author(s): Wallner, K.

Journal/Book: Laryngol Rhinol Otol (Stuttg). 1981; 60: 284-8.

Abstract: The sensation of music as a pure mental reaction is not to be maintained. Some decades ago the research work of music has been concentrated in the different branches of science. Already, the results are astonishing. Since two years, on the psychophysiological department of the "Psychological Institute of the Scientific Faculty" of the "University of Salzburg" investigations are continued to find a possible connection between the sensation of music and the laterality of the bioelectric activity of the brain. We pointed out the following results: there are great differences in the amplitudes and frequencies (in the fronto-temporale lobes) of the evoked responses between musicians and nonmusicians. While musicians show higher amplitudes and lower frequencies in the evoked potentials, nonmusicians show lower amplitudes and higher frequencies. Another astonishing cognition is that the musicians who have been requested to structure the music without any emotion show lower amplitudes like the nonmusicians, but no increase in the frequency like them. Thus we can say that musicality, that means the different impressions of music shows an effect in the evoked responses.

Keyword(s): Auditory Perception|PH. Electroencephalography|. Music|

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