fMRI Studies Show Music Is More Emotionally Stimulating When You Listen With Your Eyes Closed
by Big Al on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments
This 60 Minutes segment explained how the use of the FMRI can actually “see” what people are thinking. (Note: Speed of video has been increased so that the full video could fit on YouTube.)
The perceived emotional value of stimuli and, as a consequence the subjective emotional experience with them, can be affected by context-dependent styles of processing.
Closing the eyes affects the style of attending to auditory stimuli by modifying the perceptual relationship with the environment without changing the stimulus itself.
As expected, behavioral results showed that closing the eyes while listening to emotional music resulted in enhanced rating of emotionality, specifically of negative music.
Source: Factlets
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