Music Valence Can Affect Dichotic Listening Performance

Autor: Fatemeh Sadat Ghaheri, Hamid Jalilvand, Hasan Ashayeri, Raha Nekoutabar, Bahador Makkiabadi
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Auditory and Vestibular Research.
ISSN: 2008-2657
DOI: 10.18502/avr.v32i1.11311
Popis: Background and Aim: Music can regulate the activity of brain structures that play a significant role in emotions. The perceived emotion techniques such as dichotic listening clarify the relationships between auditory emotional stimuli and hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory modality. We examined the impact of pleasantness/unpleasantness of music by Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) as a subjective measure of listeners’ willingness to accept background noise. Methods: In this study, 32 participants rated their pleasantness with about ten songs; then, we considered the effect of preferred pleasant and unpleasant music on dichotic music listening and acceptable background noise. There were six forced attention conditions to calculate ANL, followed by measuring the most comfortable level and background noise level for each condition. Results: The pairwise comparison analyses revealed significantly higher ANL in forced attention to pleasant music than to speech (p
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