Thematic areas: 1. The Subject of Music Psychology The areas of interest of music psychology, interdisciplinary ties of music psychology: thematic ties with artistic and medicine disciplines, thematic and methodological links with music sociology, music aesthetics, and anthropology. 2. Methods of Music Psychology The introduction to main areas of music psychology: observational, experimental and exploratory methods, and methods that use the measurement of body functions. The familiarisation with the most common types of research plans. 3. Music in Everyday Life Applied music psychology - the role of music in various life contexts. Music in advertisement, retail, restaurant, background music, music or acoustic ecology. 4. Physiology and Theory of Hearing Music The physiological process of hearing. The structure and function of the ear, the transmission of sound to nerve signal, tonotopy, auditory nerve and auditory cortex. Psychoacoustics - threshold of hearing, the issues of consonance and dissonance. 5. Music and the Brain The structure of nerve system, mainly that of the brain. The history of research of the relationships between brain activity and musical activities. Anatomical and functional peculiarities of musicians; musical peculiarities in some neurological diagnoses. 6. Musical Apperception - Emotions and Music Physiological measurements and their significance for the recognition of emotions induced by music. The relationship between emotional states and current musical preferences. The specificity of music emotions. 7. Musical Apperception - Personality Factors of the Relation to Music Personality qualities, influencing musical preferences, the typology of personality in relation to music, typical qualities of musicians. Musical imagination and musical thinking. 8. Musical Reception Social factors of the relationship with music: the influence of social background on the formation of musical preferences. Social influence, the relation of social and demographic characteristics to musical preferences. 9. Musicality The concept of musicality, the degree of musicality. Musical-hearing abilities. The diagnostic of musical abilities. 10. The Ontogeny of Musicality The development of a sense of music in one's life. Musical hearing in the prenatal period, the development of musical abilities in pre-school and school age, the musical-psychological characteristic of the period of adolescence and old age. 11. Music Therapy The concept of music therapy, specific and non-specific understanding, the history of music therapy, various music-therapeutic models, the issues of education within this field, the significance of music therapy of chosen diagnoses. 12. The History of Music Psychology The overview of the development of music-psychological thinking from the first thoughts of ancient Greece to the present. The focus on the constitution of the discipline in the 19th century, and the main areas of the interest of music psychology in the 20th and 21st century.
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