The Plymouth Student Scientist
Document Type
Project Article
Abstract
The effect of mood on global and local processing was studied in 60 undergraduate psychology students, half of which were randomly assigned to a positive condition and the other half to a negative condition. Each participant carried out same-different judgements on pairs of melodies that were either the same, or altered globally or locally. Key findings included significant differences in performance for all melodies; however despite a trend for enhanced local processing in a negative mood compared to a positive mood, the effect of mood on global and local processing failed to reach statistical significance. These findings suggest that mood may not have a strong influence on processing in auditory perception.
Publication Date
2011-07-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
259
Last Page
275
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Embargo Period
2024-07-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/13934
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Pope, Jennifer
(2011)
"The effect of mood on attention to global and local characteristics of music,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 16.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol4/iss1/16
