The efficacy of musical emotions provoked by Mozart's music for the reconciliation of cognitive dissonance

Debates on the origin and function of music have a long history. While some scientists argue that music itself plays no adaptive role in human evolution, others suggest that music clearly has an evolutionary role, and point to music's universality. A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundament...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Masataka, Nobuo, Perlovsky, Leonid
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457076/