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It has recently been reported that students performed relatively better on cognitive tasks after listening to music. Conceivably, music might reduce the level of arousal in subjects who are tense, thereby improving their performance. A test case would be schizophrenic subjects, noted for poor performance on tasks demanding attention, who have been characterized as suffering from hyperarousal, which mediates these attentional deficits. We investigated whether cognitive task performance could be facilitated by music in schizophrenics and report a beneficial effect.
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Another paper stemming from a BA seminar paper, under my supervision. Two types of music, schizophrenic participants, measures of affect, time perception and performance on the Stroop task all lead to a paper looking at cognitive psychopathology.
Professor Joseph Glicksohn
Bar-Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: Can Music Alleviate Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia?, Psychopathology, December 1999, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000029118.
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