dc.contributor.author | Bonin, Tanor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29 19:15:11 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-29 19:15:11 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-29 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016-04-18 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10427 | |
dc.description.abstract | The present research evaluates whether task-irrelevant inharmonic music produces greater interference with cognitive performance than task-irrelevant harmonic music. Participants completed either an auditory (Experiments 1 and 2) or a visual (Experiment 3) version of the cognitively demanding 2-back task in which they were required to categorize each digit in a sequence of digits as either being a target (a digit also presented two positions earlier in the sequence) or a distractor (all other items). They were concurrently exposed to task-irrelevant harmonic music (judged to be consonant), task-irrelevant inharmonic music (judged to be dissonant), or no music at all as a distraction. The main finding across all three experiments was that performance on the 2-back task was worse when participants were exposed to inharmonic music than when they were exposed to harmonic music. Interestingly, performance on the 2-back task was generally the same regardless of whether harmonic music or no music was played. I suggest that inharmonic, dissonant music interferes with cognitive performance by requiring greater cognitive processing than harmonic, consonant music, and speculate about why this might be. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.subject | Dissonance | en |
dc.subject | Inharmonicity | en |
dc.subject | Music | en |
dc.subject | Auditory perception | en |
dc.subject | Cognitive interference | en |
dc.title | Beyond the emotional impact of dissonance: Inharmonic music elicits greater cognitive interference than does harmonic music | en |
dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
dc.pending | false | |
uws-etd.degree.department | Psychology | en |
uws-etd.degree.discipline | Psychology | en |
uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
uws-etd.degree | Master of Arts | en |
uws.contributor.advisor | Smilek, Daniel | |
uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
uws.published.country | Canada | en |
uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |