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How do emotions affect a person's composure and focus?
How does the “mood” of the music you listen to (sad, neutral, happy) affect a person's attention?
Previous research shows that positive mood expands the sphere of visual attention, which can manifest itself in the form of increased distraction. Neuroimaging studies show that affective and cognitive processes are tightly integrated into the brain. Experimental psychology has long recognized that affective states can influence a number of cognitive processes. For example, behavioral and neurophysiological studies have shown that executive control of attention - an emblematic example of higher-order cognition - is dependent on emotion.
An effective theoretical analysis of the effects of emotions on cognition argues that a negative affective state signals a problematic situation that requires detailed, focused, focused attention, while a positive affective state indicates the absence of a problem in the environment and, as a consequence, a decrease in the need for highly concentrated attention and efforts. Other authors have argued that cognitive control itself is inherently an emotional process. Namely, it has been suggested that situations requiring cognitive control have always elicited a negative emotional state.
If a positive mood expands the focus, at first glance it might seem that a sad mood should stimulate very close attention. However, while some studies support this notion, others suggest that sad mood has little or no effect on cognitive control or has similar effects as happy mood. Specifically, some studies show that, like happy moods, sadness also induces more flexible attention-shifting in the attention blink experiment, as well as increased distraction. These results are consistent with the suggestion that all non-neutral emotional states induce cognitive load and thereby drain resources for controlling attention.
Experiment with music
In a recent (the first time this was done) music experiment, 57 volunteers with normal hearing and no history of neurological disorders participated. Subjects were randomly assigned to music mood groups: sad, neutral, or happy. During the experiment, EEG electrodes were connected to the subjects. Each of the 3 groups listened to their own music. The volunteer had to first rate the mood (sad, neutral, happy) of the music on a 7-point scale, and then they began to test him with separate sounds (notes) for the instrument's recognizability. Both simultaneously in both ears, in an alternating manner, and separately in each ear its own sound.
The experiment showed that happy music evokes positive emotions. At the same time, it expands the scope of auditory selective attention. Those. the focus of listening to positive music dissipates in the early stages of listening. Also, the results highlight the emotional power of music and the close interaction between affect and cognition.
For music lovers
Music that was offered as listening to the subjects. The duration of listening was limited to the first 3 minutes of the composition.
Discovery of the Camp (Band of Brothers soundtrack)
- Intro from La Mer by Claude Debussy
- Midsommarvaka by Hugo Alfven
Have you listened? Feel the mood of the music?
Adapted from: Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention Vesa Putkinen Tommi Makkonen Tuomas Eerola
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 12, Issue 7, 1 July 2017, Pages 1159-1168, Published: 27 April 2017
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