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Mozart Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Pleasure of Music
Leonid Perlovsky, Arnaud Cabanac, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac +1
The Mozart effect refers to scientific data on short-term improvement on certain mental tasks after listening to Mozart, and also to its popularized version that listening to Mozar…
A structural model of emotions of cognitive dissonances
Jose F. Fontanari, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac +1
Cognitive dissonance is the stress that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts simultaneously in the mind, usually arising when people are asked to choose between two detrimen…
Drive for Creativity
Leonid Perlovsky, Daniel Levine
We advance a hypothesis that creativity has evolved with evolution of internal representations, possibly from amniotes to primates, and further in human cultural evolution. Represe…
Free Will and Advances in Cognitive Science
Leonid Perlovsky
Free will is fundamental to morality, intuition of self, and normal functioning of the society. However, science does not provide a clear logical foundation for this idea. This pap…
Physics of the mind: Concepts, emotions, language, cognition, consciousness, beauty, music, and symbolic culture
Leonid Perlovsky
Mathematical approaches to modeling the mind since the 1950s are reviewed. Difficulties faced by these approaches are related to the fundamental incompleteness of logic discovered…
Beauty and Art. Cognitive Function, Evolution, and Mathematical Models of the Mind
Leonid Perlovsky
The paper discusses relationships between aesthetics theory and mathematical models of mind. Mathematical theory describes abilities for concepts, emotions, instincts, imagination,…