Tempo errors and mania

Stein, Johanna

doi:10.1176/ajp.134.4.454

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“…Such preferences do not only exist independently from each other, but are related across modalitiesand with the motor system. The psychiatrist Stein (1977) observed that mania, which is characterized by a generally fast pace of behavior and decision-making, is also associated with a preference for a fast tempo of music in such patients. In healthy participants, SMT and SPT tend to have comparable rates in the same individual (McAuley, 2010).…”

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Caressed by music: Related preferences for velocity of touch and tempo of music?

Sailer

Zucknick²,

Laeng³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Given that both hearing and touch are ‘mechanical senses’ that respond to physical pressure or mechanical energy and that individuals appear to have a characteristic internal or spontaneous tempo, individual preferences in musical and touch rhythms might be related. We explored this in two experiments probing individual preferences for tempo in the tactile and auditory modalities. Study 1 collected ratings of received stroking on the forearm and measured the velocity the participants used for stroking a fur. Music tempo preferences were assessed as mean beats per minute of individually selected music pieces and via the adjustment of experimenter-selected music to a preferred tempo. Heart rate was recorded to measure levels of physiological arousal. We found that the preferred tempo of favorite (self-selected) music correlated positively with the velocity with which each individual liked to be touched. In Study 2, participants rated videos of repeated touch on someone else’s arm and videos of a drummer playing with brushes on a snare drum, both at a variety of tempos. We found that participants with similar rating patterns for the different stroking speeds did not show similar rating patterns for the different music beats. The results suggest that there may be a correspondence between preferences for favorite music and felt touch, but this is either weak or it cannot be evoked effectively with vicarious touch and/or mere drum beats. Thus, if preferences for touch and music are related, this is likely to be dependent on the specific type of stimulation.

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Caressed by music: Related preferences for velocity of touch and tempo of music?

Sailer

Zucknick²,

Laeng³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The effect of mental illness on the emotional experience of music

Nielzén¹,

Cesarec²

1982

Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr

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Psychiatric patients (N=107) were studied regarding the importance of pertaining to a diagnostic group for the variation of emotional experience in music. The diagnostic groups chosen were: schizophrenic, depressive and manic psychosis, obsessive, depressive, anxiety and hysterical neurosis. As stimuli seven newly composed pieces of music orchestrated for a small symphony orchestra were used. The assessment of emotional experience was accomplished by semantic differential scales measuring the factors tension-relaxation, gaiety-gloom and attraction-repulsion. The most conspicuous findings were: the anxiety neurosis patients experienced the music as neutral in tension and gaiety, but repulsive. Hysterics experienced more gaiety and attraction together with varying degrees of tension, obsessives more tension, depressive psychotics more gloom and schizophrenics more attraction than other groups.

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Temporal experience in mania

Moskalewicz

Schwartz

2018

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The paper examines both the phenomenology of the manic self as well as critical aspects of manic neurobiology, focusing, with respect to both domains, on manic temporality. We argue that the distortions of lived time in mania exceed mere acceleration and are fundamental for manic affectivity. Mania involves radical acceleration and radical asynchronicity, which result in an instantaneous existence. People with mania rebel against the facticity of reality and suffer from an existential leap towards the future, in which the self abandons normal temporal boundaries. Excerpts from the interviews with persons with mania who experienced psychosis illustrate this phenomenon. Commenting upon disrupted circadian rhythms in mania and the role of lithium in its treatment the paper posits manic temporality as the link through which manic phenomenology and manic neurobiology intertwine.

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Tempo errors and mania

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Caressed by music: Related preferences for velocity of touch and tempo of music?

Caressed by music: Related preferences for velocity of touch and tempo of music?

The effect of mental illness on the emotional experience of music

Temporal experience in mania

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