Psychological effects of perception of traditional/non-traditional music and their brain correlates
Abstract
Psychological effects of perception of music by 63 normal young Russian city dwellers were studied. Stress coping strategies, primitive in functional and ontogenetic terms (confrontation, avoidance) were demonstrated to be primarily affected, as well as such basic psychological defense mechanisms, as suppres- sion. Differences in the effects of perception of the traditional (light European classical) music and the non-traditional (contemporary designer) one were traced back, primarily at the level of general psycho- logical tension. As a result, possible psychological me- chanisms supporting the adaptive function of culture, are discussed.