Arnaud Cabanac
Laval University
6 Papers
Arnaud Cabanac is an academic researcher from Laval University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Music psychology & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
The emergence of consciousness in phylogeny.
TL;DR: It is proposed that emotion, and more broadly speaking consciousness, emerged in the evolutionary line among the early Amniota and is characterized by a common mental pathway that uses pleasure, or its counterpart displeasure, as a means to optimize behavior.
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Handling elevates the colonic temperature of mice.
Arnaud Cabanac,Eduard Briese +1 more
TL;DR: Handling mice for repeatedly measuring their colonic temperature (Tc) resulted in a significant rise in their Tc, but when the procedure was repeated day after day, this response diminished by habituation, showing the emotional origin of Tc rise.
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Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Pleasure of Music
TL;DR: It follows that music likely performs a fundamental cognitive function explaining the origin and evolution of musical ability that have been considered a mystery.
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No emotional fever in toads
Arnaud Cabanac,Michel Cabanac +1 more
TL;DR: Findings confirm the existence of behavioral fever, but not emotional fever, in the species studied, and establish a temperature gradient based approach to regulate body temperature through behavioral means.
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Mozart effect, cognitive dissonance, and the pleasure of music.
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of music is related to its hedonicity and whether pleasant or unpleasant music would influence scholarly test performance and cognitive dissonance, and the authors explore a possibility that the "Mozart effect" points to a fundamental cognitive function of music.