Scelte musicali in adolescenza: quali effetti sulle capacità logico-matematiche?

This thesis aims at exploring the influences of pop music fruition on logical-formal thinking, through the help of Peircian semiotics and musemes as minimal significant units of musical discourse (Tagg, 1987). After an historical overview about music effects on human body and mind, in Chapter l I explore the neuroscientific bases of the three levels of music perception, emotion, and cognition. In Chapter 2 I analyze the famous Mozart Effect and its temporal¬-spatial nature, while Chapters 3-5 are dedicated to adolescence, music preferences development, and music listening choices. Chapter 6 is a long essay about everything has been said about “bad” and “good” effects of music aver people and even nature. Chapter 7 is the care of the whole thesis, in which I offer the operative definition of Hybrid and Narrative music, on the basis of Greimas’ categories. It represents the theoretical framework in which locating the (quasi)experimental design I present in the last chapter. Chapter 8 shows a practical realization of my theory. In Conclusions I explore the analogies of my results with Gardner’s MI theory, and with Margiotta’s concept of multi-alphabetical citizen.