{"id":7373,"date":"2012-10-20T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2012-10-20T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T20:34:20","slug":"music-theory-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2012\/10\/20\/music-theory-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Theory Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Music Rules The World<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Cultural observations by Lev Six<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers visited a culturally isolated native tribe in Cameroon to see if they had the same perceptions of &#8220;happy&#8221; and &#8220;scary&#8221; music as we do. Even though their music was nothing like ours and their civilization had not yet progressed to the Nickelback phase, they identified the emotional core of songs the same way we would. When exposed to piano selections in the major keys, they were more likely to point to pictures of smiling faces; when presented with songs in the minor keys, they were more likely to point to sad or fearful faces.<\/p>\n<p>The really strange thing is that just the act of manipulating yourself into the state that matches the music actually makes you happier, even if the music itself is sad or angry. For example, listening to heavy metal produces the same brain reaction as aggression does, yet subjects are calmer and happier afterward. So how does this relate to you? Well, it&#8217;s not just that you want sad music when you&#8217;re feeling sad, and vice versa &#8212; it&#8217;s something that your brain seeks out.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of its neural magnificence, your brain is, at its most basic level, a junkie. Whenever you do something good, your brain rewards itself by shooting up some dopamine and getting its fix. A great way for your brain to get blitzed off its ass is to listen to music. This continual rewarding is what encourages you to listen to more music.<\/p>\n<p>So how does this relate to your preferences? Remember Pavlov and his dogs? Since classical conditioning can occur with any external stimulus, your brain can daisy chain something like music to a completely unrelated conditioned response. For example, a parking garage owner in Chicago patented a system where the elevator would play different songs at different floors, which helped customers remember where they had parked their cars. Likewise, how you&#8217;re feeling when you hear a song can completely affect whether or not you like that song. This conditioning is so strong that once it is ingrained, your brain will actually start seeking out certain types of music so that it can manipulate itself into a desired emotional state.<center><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_7374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7374\" style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/peewee-dangerfield-roth.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/peewee-dangerfield-roth.jpg?resize=403%2C323\" alt=\"\" title=\"peewee-dangerfield-roth\" width=\"403\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/peewee-dangerfield-roth.jpg?w=403&amp;ssl=1 403w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/peewee-dangerfield-roth.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><b>Join us, won&#8217;t you?<\/b> <i>Image sourced by the flipped editor. (Just kidding, dude.)<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Rules The World Tweet Cultural observations by Lev Six Researchers visited a culturally isolated native tribe in Cameroon to see if they had the same perceptions of &#8220;happy&#8221; and &#8220;scary&#8221; music as we do. Even though their music was nothing like ours and their civilization had not yet progressed to the Nickelback phase, they identified the emotional core of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[574,742,670,731,605,606,573,582,730,740,641],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-photography","category-dance","category-first-person-account","category-health-and-fitness","category-lifestytle","category-music","category-nightlife","category-opinion","category-politics","category-pop-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3072,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/10\/23\/new-music-and-film-review-grimoons-super-8neera\/","url_meta":{"origin":7373,"position":0},"title":"new music and film review &#8211; GRIMOON&#8217;s Super 8\/Neera","author":"admin","date":"October 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Grimoon Super 8 - the album; Neera - the movieCD\/DVD reviewed by Reviewer Rob CD & DVD 2-disc package, produced by Scott Mercado, recorded at Macaco Country Studio in Tevisto, Italia, and mastered in San Diego at Kitch & Snych by Sven Eric Seaholm, grimoon.com, 500records.com Grimoon is an Italo-French\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/grimoon-fb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":251,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2007\/03\/01\/music-reviews-by-natalie-kardos-driftless-pony-club\/","url_meta":{"origin":7373,"position":1},"title":"music reviews by Natalie Kardos &#8211; Driftless Pony Club","author":"admin","date":"March 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"music reviews by Natalie Kardos Driftless Pony Club Cholera The Driftless Pony Club show off their (modest) mousey roots on this CD that\u2019s characterized by abrupt tempo changes and vocals that alternate between singing and shouting. 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