Music and Sound and Their Effects on Physical and Mental Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2022) | Viewed by 49400
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, IPEM, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: music psychology; musical sense-making; musical epistemology; neurobiological grounding of music listening; music and brain studies
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Interests: biomusicology; music psychology; the origins of musicality; anthropology; the evolution of hearing
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Interests: noise; hearing; hearing loss; noise-induced hearing loss; auditory neurophysiology; psychoacoustics; soundscape; health promotion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Music and sound, can elicit multiple reactions by trespassing on the body and the mind. Much research has been conducted into their beneficial or harmful effects in the short and the long term. The underlying mechanisms have been investigated through two major research avenues: the experimental approach, which aims at measuring how features of the music/sound affect the listener’s responses, and the individual differences approach, which examines intrapersonal factors that lead to different musical/sound experiences. The aim of this research topic is to bring together recent findings, theories and hypotheses from a multiplicity of domains, focusing on positive as well as negative outcomes of listening and coping with music and sounds. Music and sound, in fact, can be regarded as triggers or reinforcers with effects that can be investigated from the psychological, physical-physiological, neurological, behavioral, endocrinological and immunological domains. Special attention is paid to the inductive power of music, the neurobiology of emotions, the role of the reward system in musical/acoustical processing, peak emotional experiences such as chills and thrills, the neuroaesthetics of music and corresponding neuroplastic changes, the harmful effects of loud music or sounds and maladaptive listening, the influence of music and other sounds on sleep, and clinical applications both for the healthy and the impaired.
Prof. Dr. Mark Reybrouck
Prof. Dr. Piotr Podlipniak
Dr. David Welch
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Keywords
- music and health
- music as trigger
- inductive power
- neuroaesthetics
- music as reward
- hearing damage
- maladaptive listening
- neurobiology of stress
- chills and thrills
