ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Music Listening as Exploratory Behavior: From Dispositional Reactions to Epistemic Interactions with the Sonic World.
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- Exploratory Listening Through Background Music: Psychological Predictors of Everyday Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Use of Soundscapes in Environmental Education: Teachers' Competencies in Auditory Analysis and Emotional Identification.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Embodied, Exploratory Listening in the Concert Hall.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Causal Model for Surveys of Exploratory Listening and Music Appreciation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- From Game to Concert: Exploratory Listening in 'Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons' Concert Tour.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Meaning in Music Framed: The Four 'Eff' Processes (Fit, Affiliation, Facilitation, and Fluency).Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Curiosity and Mind Wandering During Music Listening Are Negatively Correlated.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Listening to music can span a continuum from passive consumption to active exploration, relying on processes of coping with the sounds as well as higher-level processes of sense-making. Revolving around the major questions of "what" and "how" to explore, this paper takes a naturalistic stance toward music listening, providing tools to objectively describe the underlying mechanisms of musical sense-making by weakening the distinction between music and non-music. Starting from a non-exclusionary conception of "coping" with the sounds, it stresses the exploratory approach of treating music as a sound environment to be discovered by an attentive listener. Exploratory listening, in this view, is an open-minded and active process, not dependent on simply recalling pre-existing knowledge or information that reduces cognitive processing efforts but having a high cognitive load due to the need for highly focused attention and perceptual readiness. Music, explored in this way, is valued for its complexity, surprisingness, novelty, incongruity, puzzlingness, and patterns, relying on processes of selection, differentiation, discrimination, and identification.
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