Moral development, executive functioning, peak experiences and brain patterns in professional and amateur classical musicians: Interpreted in light of a Unified Theory of Performance

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1256-1264

  Travis, Frederick ^a   Harung, Harald S ^b   Lagrosen, Yvonne ^c  

^a MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coherence; Moral reasoning; Musicians; P300, peak experiences; Stroop color word task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB EXPERIENCE; MALE; MORALITY; MUSICIAN; RESPONSE TIME; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; UNIFIED THEORY OF PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; MUSIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST;

EID: 80054849755     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.020     Document Type: Article

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