Dissonâncias não influenciam as habilidades visuoespaciais ou as emoções de universitários saudáveis

Abstract

There is evidence that music properties could modulate mood and improve the performance of visuospatial skills. Dissonances in music are interpreted as unpleasant by untrained liste-ners. We investigated whether dissonances can modulate emotions and alter the performance of a visuospatial task. Twenty-five healthy university students participated, divided into the Control Group (n=10), the Consonance Group (n=8), and the Dissonance Group (n=7). All were screened for current psychiatric symptoms, underwent a visuospatial test before and after the music listening period, and were evaluated by the OASIS, which investigates emo-tions. The results showed no effect caused by dissonance in music, both on emotions and vi-suospatial skills, in young people with little previous musical contact. These results suggest that the tempo and mode of music and the melody itself are the only known factors capable of modulating visuospatial performance.