Effects of emotional music on visual processes in inferior temporal area

Jomori, Izumi; Hoshiyama, Minoru; Uemura, Junichi; Nakagawa, Yasuyuki; Hoshino, Aiko; Iwamoto, Yumiko

doi:10.1080/17588928.2012.751366

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“…The ability of emotional sounds to influence visual perception has been shown experimentally for stimuli such as complex IAPS ( International Affective Picture System ) scenes 50 51 , photographs of faces and landscapes 52 , emotional facial expressions 53 and schematics of faces embedded in noise 54 . In particular, with regard to faces, it has been shown that subjects were more accurate at detecting sub-threshold happy faces while listening to happy music and vice versa for sad faces and sad music.…”

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The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity

Proverbio

Nasi

Arcari

et al. 2015

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The aim of this study was to investigate how background auditory processing can affect other perceptual and cognitive processes as a function of stimulus content, style and emotional nature. Previous studies have offered contrasting evidence, and it has been recently shown that listening to music negatively affected concurrent mental processing in the elderly but not in young adults. To further investigate this matter, the effect of listening to music vs. listening to the sound of rain or silence was examined by administering an old/new face memory task (involving 448 unknown faces) to a group of 54 non-musician university students. Heart rate and diastolic and systolic blood pressure were measured during an explicit face study session that was followed by a memory test. The results indicated that more efficient and faster recall of faces occurred under conditions of silence or when participants were listening to emotionally touching music. Whereas auditory background (e.g., rain or joyful music) interfered with memory encoding, listening to emotionally touching music improved memory and significantly increased heart rate. It is hypothesized that touching music is able to modify the visual perception of faces by binding facial properties with auditory and emotionally charged information (music), which may therefore result in deeper memory encoding.

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The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity

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et al. 2015

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“…In general, it is well known, also from daily life experience, that music can induce strong emotional states and pleasant sensations (Blood and Zatorre, 2001 ; Zatorre, 2015 ), often accompanied by relevant psychophysiological changes (Krumhansl, 1997 ; Proverbio et al, 2015 ). Listening to music also influences visual perception and cognition (Jomori et al, 2013 ; Proverbio et al, 2015 ), and the rhythmic structure of auditory stimuli affects the perceived visual temporal rate (Recanzone, 2003 ). Moreover, music, rhythm and movements are tightly intertwined, and this relationship extends to visual metrical perception, including a specific effect of visual motion on auditory tempo (Su and Jonikaitis, 2011 ; Su and Salazar-López, 2016 ).…”

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Speed Biases With Real-Life Video Clips

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Montanaro

de'Sperati

2018

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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We live almost literally immersed in an artificial visual world, especially motion pictures. In this exploratory study, we asked whether the best speed for reproducing a video is its original, shooting speed. By using adjustment and double staircase methods, we examined speed biases in viewing real-life video clips in three experiments, and assessed their robustness by manipulating visual and auditory factors. With the tested stimuli (short clips of human motion, mixed human-physical motion, physical motion and ego-motion), speed underestimation was the rule rather than the exception, although it depended largely on clip content, ranging on average from 2% (ego-motion) to 32% (physical motion). Manipulating display size or adding arbitrary soundtracks did not modify these speed biases. Estimated speed was not correlated with estimated duration of these same video clips. These results indicate that the sense of speed for real-life video clips can be systematically biased, independently of the impression of elapsed time. Measuring subjective visual tempo may integrate traditional methods that assess time perception: speed biases may be exploited to develop a simple, objective test of reality flow, to be used for example in clinical and developmental contexts. From the perspective of video media, measuring speed biases may help to optimize video reproduction speed and validate “natural” video compression techniques based on sub-threshold temporal squeezing.

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“…It was shown that musicians outperformed non-musicians in the ability of perceptual speed, which requires quick visual information processing [ 20 ]. Visual memory was also reported to be better in musicians than in non-musicians [ 21 – 24 ]; even primary visual perception [ 25 ] and somatosensory cognitive processing [ 26 ] were reported to be enhanced in musicians. However, these studies used psychometric measures and did not evaluate cognitive processing in an objective way.…”

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Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing

2015

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BackgroundMusical ability has always been linked to enhanced cognitive and intellectual skills. We were interested in the relation between musical ability and short-time cognitive processing as measured by event-related potentials, in particular in visual processing, since previous studies have already suggested such a link for acoustic cognitive processing. We measured auditory and visual event-related potentials as elicited by an oddball paradigm in 20 healthy subjects (10 musicians and 10 non-musicians; 10 female; mean age 24 ± 2 years). In addition, the Seashore test and a test developed by the authors to detect relevant amusia, the latter one with a high ceiling effect, were also applied.ResultsThe most important finding was that there is a significant linear correlation between musical ability as measured by these tests and the P3 latencies of both the auditory and visual event-related potentials. Furthermore, musicians showed shorter latencies of the event-related potentials than non-musicians.ConclusionsWe conclude that musical ability as measured by neuropsychological tests is associated with improved short-time cognitive processing both in the auditory and, surprisingly, also in the visual domain.

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Effects of emotional music on visual processes in inferior temporal area

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity

The effect of background music on episodic memory and autonomic responses: listening to emotionally touching music enhances facial memory capacity

Speed Biases With Real-Life Video Clips

Musical ability is associated with enhanced auditory and visual cognitive processing

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