ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Music Listening and Homeostatic Regulation: Surviving and Flourishing in a Sonic World.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The effect of listening to music and drawing on coping with dysmenorrhea complaints in nursing students: randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Synchronization of Cardiac and Musical Signals Improves Interoceptive, Cardiac, and Emotional Functioning.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Psychophysiological effects of low-frequency sound mediated by room size, room shape, and stimulus duration.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Music listening patterns and their associations with mood regulation, emotional processing, and cognitive performance: an intensive longitudinal questionnaire study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Paralanguage as a tool for shaping stress response in Listeners: Multimodal physiological sensing study.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Complementary and alternative therapies in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Review
- Determining the role of music attitude and its precursors in stimulating the psychological wellbeing of immigrants during COVID quarantine - a moderated mediation approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Meaning in Music Is Intentional, but in Soundscape It Is Not-A Naturalistic Approach to the Qualia of Sounds.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper argues for a biological conception of music listening as an evolutionary achievement that is related to a long history of cognitive and affective-emotional functions, which are grounded in basic homeostatic regulation. Starting from the three levels of description, the acoustic description of sounds, the neurological level of processing, and the psychological correlates of neural stimulation, it conceives of listeners as open systems that are in continuous interaction with the sonic world. By monitoring and altering their current state, they can try to stay within the limits of operating set points in the pursuit of a controlled state of dynamic equilibrium, which is fueled by interoceptive and exteroceptive sources of information. Listening, in this homeostatic view, can be adaptive and goal-directed with the aim of maintaining the internal physiology and directing behavior towards conditions that make it possible to thrive by seeking out stimuli that are valued as beneficial and worthy, or by attempting to avoid those that are annoying and harmful. This calls forth the mechanisms of pleasure and reward, the distinction between pleasure and enjoyment, the twin notions of valence and arousal, the affect-related consequences of music listening, the role of affective regulation and visceral reactions to the sounds, and the distinction between adaptive and maladaptive listening.
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