From Perception To Pleasure
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From Perception To Pleasure
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Author : Robert J. Zatorre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
From Perception To Pleasure written by Robert J. Zatorre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Education categories.
"Our species has been making music most likely for as long as we've been human. It seems to be an indelible a part of us. The oldest known musical instruments date back to the upper paleolithic period, some 40,000 years ago. Among the most intriguing of these are delicate bone flutes, seen in Figure 1.1, found in what is now southern Germany. (Conard et al. 2009). These discoveries testify to the advanced technology that our ancestors applied to create music: the finger holes are carefully bevelled to allow the musician's fingers to make a tight seal; and the distances between the holes appear to have been precisely measured, perhaps to correspond to a specific musical scale. This time period corresponds to the last glaciation episode in the northern hemisphere -- life could not have been easy for people living at that time. Yet time, energy, and the skills of craftworkers were expended for making abstract sounds "of the least use ... to daily habits of life". So, music must have been very meaningful and important for them. Why would that be?"--
From Perception To Pleasure
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Author : Robert Zatorre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-17
From Perception To Pleasure written by Robert Zatorre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-17 with Psychology categories.
Why do we love music? What enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it? In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre provides answers to these questions from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, explaining how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses. The book is organized around a central thesis: that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that enable processing of sound patterns, and subcortical circuits responsible for reward and valuation. This model integrates knowledge derived from basic neuroscience of the auditory system and of reward mechanisms with the concept that perception and pleasure depend on mechanisms of prediction, anticipation, and valuation. The first part of the book describes the pathways to and from the auditory cortex that generate internal representations of musical structure at different levels of abstraction, which then interact with memory, sensory-motor, and other cognitive mechanisms that are essential to perceive and produce music. The second part of the book focuses on the functional anatomy of the dopaminergic reward system; its involvement in musical pleasure; the links between prediction, surprise, and complexity; and what happens when the system is disrupted. The book is richly illustrated to help the reader follow the scientific findings. Most of all, From Perception to Pleasure provides an integrative model for a large body of scientific knowledge that explains how patterns of abstract sounds can generate profoundly moving hedonic experiences.
Music And The Functions Of The Brain Arousal Emotions And Pleasure
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Author : Mark Reybrouck
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Music And The Functions Of The Brain Arousal Emotions And Pleasure written by Mark Reybrouck and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with categories.
Music impinges upon the body and the brain. As such, it has significant inductive power which relies both on innate dispositions and acquired mechanisms and competencies. The processes are partly autonomous and partly deliberate, and interrelations between several levels of processing are becoming clearer with accumulating new evidence. For instance, recent developments in neuroimaging techniques, have broadened the field by encompassing the study of cortical and subcortical processing of the music. The domain of musical emotions is a typical example with a major focus on the pleasure that can be derived from listening to music. Pleasure, however, is not the only emotion to be induced and the mechanisms behind its elicitation are far from understood. There are also mechanisms related to arousal and activation that are both less differentiated and at the same time more complex than the assumed mechanisms that trigger basic emotions. It is imperative, therefore, to investigate what pleasurable and mood-modifying effects music can have on human beings in real-time listening situations. This e-book is an attempt to answer these questions. Revolving around the specificity of music experience in terms of perception, emotional reactions, and aesthetic assessment, it presents new hypotheses, theoretical claims as well as new empirical data which contribute to a better understanding of the functions of the brain as related to musical experience.
Pleasure Reward Preference
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Author : D. E. Berlyne
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Pleasure Reward Preference written by D. E. Berlyne and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Psychology categories.
Pleasure, Reward, Preference: Their Nature, Determinants, and Role in Behavior covers the proceedings of a symposium by the same title, held at the Klarskovgaard Training Institute, near Korsør, Denmark, on June 5-9 1972, organized under the auspices of the Advisory Group on Human Factors of the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This book is composed of 11 chapters, and starts with a historical perspective and review of the principal problems related to understanding the principles of pleasure, reward, and preference. The next chapters explore neurophysiological research with animals and the human cognitive phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the concept of exploratory choice, verbal judgment, the law of effects and an adaptation-level model for affectivity and perception. The concluding chapters provide examples of behavioristic theories and describe a process model of motivation to understand the complexity of cognition and predictability of behavior. These chapters also tackle the role of pleasure and reward in human motivation and learning, as well as present a metascientific frame of motivation. This text will prove useful to psychologists, behaviorist, and researchers.
Perception And Pleasure
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Author : Fred Harold Marcus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Perception And Pleasure written by Fred Harold Marcus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Novelle categories.
Pleasure Perception And Natural Harmony In Plato And Epicurus
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Author : David D. Ortiz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Pleasure Perception And Natural Harmony In Plato And Epicurus written by David D. Ortiz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
role that felt sensations play in the two accounts of pleasure does not constitute a substantial difference between the two accounts of pleasure. Rather, I maintain that the necessary role of sensations in Epicurus' account is a feature of his epistemology, and that Epicurus is committed to this conception of the role of sensations in the phenomenon. The benefit of my view is that it accentuates an underappreciated continuity in the conception of pleasure between Plato and Epicurus. Furthermore, my view brings Epicurus more in line with mainstream views regarding the nature of pleasure in antiquity.
In The Light Of Evolution
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Author : National Academy of Sciences
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2014-05-19
In The Light Of Evolution written by National Academy of Sciences and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with Science categories.
Humans possess certain unique mental traits. Self-reflection, as well as ethic and aesthetic values, is among them, constituting an essential part of what we call the human condition. The human mental machinery led our species to have a self-awareness but, at the same time, a sense of justice, willing to punish unfair actions even if the consequences of such outrages harm our own interests. Also, we appreciate searching for novelties, listening to music, viewing beautiful pictures, or living in well-designed houses. But why is this so? What is the meaning of our tendency, among other particularities, to defend and share values, to evaluate the rectitude of our actions and the beauty of our surroundings? What brain mechanisms correlate with the human capacity to maintain inner speech, or to carry out judgments of value? To what extent are they different from other primates' equivalent behaviors? In the Light of Evolution Volume VII aims to survey what has been learned about the human "mental machinery." This book is a collection of colloquium papers from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium "The Human Mental Machinery," which was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 11-12, 2013. The colloquium brought together leading scientists who have worked on brain and mental traits. Their 16 contributions focus the objective of better understanding human brain processes, their evolution, and their eventual shared mechanisms with other animals. The articles are grouped into three primary sections: current study of the mind-brain relationships; the primate evolutionary continuity; and the human difference: from ethics to aesthetics. This book offers fresh perspectives coming from interdisciplinary approaches that open new research fields and constitute the state of the art in some important aspects of the mind-brain relationships.
Plotinus And Epicurus
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Author : Angela Longo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-03
Plotinus And Epicurus written by Angela Longo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-03 with Philosophy categories.
Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.
Plotinus And Epicurus
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Author : Angela Longo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Plotinus And Epicurus written by Angela Longo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
Proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus.
Pleasure And Danger In Perception
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Author : Corine Schleif
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Pleasure And Danger In Perception written by Corine Schleif and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Europe categories.