PS1105 - Introduction to Applied Psychology

Music Psychology

• branch of both psychology and musicology

• aims to understand musical behaviour and experience

• includes how we percieve,create and respond to music

Do you need to be a musician to be a music psychologist

• the field is interdisciplinary and draws from many areas like physics, philosophy, biology and sociology

how does physics contribute to music psychology

• through acoustics which is the science of sound

• provides a fundamental basis for understanding the sonic (sound based) aspects of music

which brain regions are involved in emotional reactions to music

• the Amygdala and the Nucleus accumbens

• the Cerebellum is also involved in emotional reactions as well as movement