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Hemispheric Responses to Different Musical Selections
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Murray, Sarah Elizabeth
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Year and Degree
2010, Bachelor of Arts, Wittenberg University, Music.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to detect, using electroencephalography, whether or not individuals respond differently to modalities within Western tonal music. Specifically I investigated whether or not hemispheric dominance had any effect on the participants' responses to specific musical selections, and if men and women respond differently. Electroencephalography records neurons firing throughout the brain and picks up this electrical activity on the scalp. In this experiment two electrodes were placed behind the subject's ears, two on the subject's forehead, one on the scalp, and a ground electrode on the forearm. The results indicated that there was no effect of music on a particular hemisphere or brainwaves, although right-brained females and left-brained males showed the greatest response to all types of music.
Committee
Steven Siek, Dr. (Advisor)
Josephine Wilson, PhD (Committee Member)
Trudy Faber (Committee Member)
Pages
87 p.
Subject Headings
Music
;
Neurosciences
Keywords
left-brain
;
right brain
;
brain hemispheres
;
music
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Murray, S. E. (2010).
Hemispheric Responses to Different Musical Selections
[Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338492751
APA Style (7th edition)
Murray, Sarah.
Hemispheric Responses to Different Musical Selections.
2010. Wittenberg University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338492751.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Murray, Sarah. "Hemispheric Responses to Different Musical Selections." Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338492751
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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