MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W222622343 · doi:10.5070/bs3122007596

Music and the Mind

2009· article· en· W222622343 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBerkeley Scientific Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCognitive sciencePsychologyCommunication

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Music and the Mind THE MIND FALL THE MIND Could the Popular Guitar Hero Videogame Actually have Academic Benefits? The relationship between music and the mind is even more complicated, however. While music can have a positive impact on the brain, the brain can subsequently affect inter- pretation of music as well. Musical hallucinations can result from brain damage; for instance, one individual experienced Music's Affect on the Brain hearing folk songs as a result of a brain abscess (BBC 2000). When such hallucinations occur, possibly caused by commu- The recognition of music's relationship to the brain, espe- nication difficulties within the brain, the musical illusions cially on an emotional level, dates back to Ancient Greece. are often tunes that are familiar to the person. People with Plato postulated that music gives soul to the universe, wings hearing loss have also experienced auditory hallucinations, to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, but these can be attributed to sensory deprivation (BBC gaiety and life to everything (PBS). Due to its emotional 2000). effects, music is often utilized for therapeutic purposes. For instance, during W.W.II it was shown that playing music for Music and Culture veterans could affect a person's mood, physical and emotion- al well-being, movement, fears, and muscle tension (PBS). Current research both confirms music's pivotal role in Accordingly, Michigan State University created the first human expression and can lead to further illuminations for degree program in music therapy in 1944 (PBS). However, understanding brain development. Research conducted by the study of the relationship between the brain and music is Sandra Tehub, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, often marginalized, as it is often not viewed as an important confirms that babies can detect changes in pitch, tempo, and part of understanding cognition and the brain. This view- melody (Newsweek). Furthermore, infants seem to respond point changed somewhat when the New York Academy of well to consonant music but dislike dissonant tunes, which Sciences organized conference in 2000 on the biology of are considered harsh and unpleasant. This research aims to music, adding intellectual approval to the discipline (Balter determine whether preference and music interpretation is 2007). Then, in 2005, researchers added further legitimacy to hardwired in the brain. Certainly, the structure of the brain the subject by showing how music affects how the brain and how the brain processes music seem to suggest that the processes speech (PBS). brain is specialized for music. Therefore, by understanding Also, developing musical skills has been associated with how the brain responds to music, other functions can also be enhanced spatial intelligence. The appreciation of music investigated (Newsweek). requires higher brain functions, and learning music can Indeed, musicians have more brain cells in certain areas, translate into increased skills in math (PBS). In brains of including ones responsible for following visual and auditory people with musical training, the area that connects planning cues. However, researchers are still trying to determine and foresight, the corpus callosum, is larger. Since enhanced whether or not the enlarged regions first caused these indi- activity in this area of the brain is crucial for quick coordina- viduals' propensity for music or whether the study of music tion, it makes sense that the corpus callosum is enlarged for caused a secondary enhancement of their cognitive abilities musicians who must perform advanced musical composi- (BBC 2001). Deciphering whether the differences in brain tions (Newsweek). Interestingly, performing music may not composition are the cause or the effect underscores both the Music has been a form of human expression and a global fixture for centuries. Due to the pervasiveness of music throughout human history, it seems that the biological ori- gins of music are worthy of study. Recently, the particular connection between music and the mind has become a sub- ject of scholarship, but it is not without its critics. Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, for instance, has even referred to music as auditory cheesecake, something nonessential and simply for enjoyment (Scientific American). While some may find studying music to be a trivial method for helping to illuminate how the mind operates, researchers have found that understanding the relationship between the mind and music can allow for parallel developments in comprehending other phenomena, such as language. be the only way to reap similar benefits, as mentally rehears- ing music has the same effect on the cortical map (Newsweek). Thus, music is not simply an evolutionary dead end without any higher purpose besides entertainment value. Music is part of a larger scheme of brain processes and hon- ing musical skills has not only therapeutic benefits, but aca- demic advantages as well. The Brain and Music by Meagan Cooney

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.514
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it