Message from @Undead Mockingbird
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Repetitive, thumping music was preferred by subjects with lower IQ.
However, autism appears to not affect music preference, in general.
"As a consequence of frequent limbic alterations, autistic persons could judge pleasant and unpleasant music in an unusual manner. We explored this possibility by using consonant and dissonant music (test 2) and excluded the eventuality that they could prefer other auditory stimuli by comparing familiar music to environmental sounds (test 1). In both tests, severe autistics and controls were asked to listen under two conditions (familiar music versus environmental sounds; pleasant versus unpleasant music) in a counterbalanced order while the time spent during each condition was measured. Both groups significantly preferred the musical task and the pleasant music condition. No difference between groups was detected. Results demonstrate that severely autistic subjects share with healthy people the same musical preferences."
"could judge" is a bad wording here, because you don't know if this is a conjunctive or a past tense, necessarily. A better phrasing would have been "might be expected to", for example.
Err, subjunctive.
Aha.
But still, interesting finding.
for sure
And the authors are right to suspect autism's effect on the limbic structures to impact music taste.
But, our music preference or ability to perceive music does not seem to depend on those areas of our brain.
Boso, Marianna, et al. "Exploring musical taste in severely autistic subjects." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1169.1 (2009): 332-335.
Langmeyer, Alexandra, Angelika Guglhör-Rudan, and Christian Tarnai. "What do music preferences reveal about personality?." Journal of individual differences (2012).
"The present study is the first to examine the relationship between music preferences and personality among a sample of young Germans (N = 422, age range 21–26 years). We replicated the factor structure of the Short Test of Music Preferences (STOMP, Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003) by means of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The validity of the STOMP was also confirmed for the first time by rating soundclips. The relationship between the dimensions of personality (Big Five Inventory) and music preferences (STOMP and soundclips) was analyzed with a structural equation model (SEM). Gender differences were examined with multigroup analyses (MGA). Our findings corroborate earlier findings on the relationship between music preferences and personality: Individuals open to experience prefer reflective and complex music (e.g., classical) and intense and rebellious music (e.g., rock), whereas they dislike upbeat and conventional types of music (e.g., pop music). Extraverts, on the other hand, prefer upbeat and conventional and energetic and rhythmic types of music (e.g., rap/hip-hop). The results reveal some gender differences."
I do prefer classical
Are you introverted or extroverted?
I listen to the classical station, and have for years
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand classical music
Yes, if you want to understand the composition.
I'm more introverted
I like classical because the sound is more beautiful and it is less repetitive
If there is no progression and development in the music, I get bored.
It's like listening to a clip of music on repeat.
I also usually don't like songs with lyrics.
Fookin nerds
I also prefer ibstrumwbtals
What is that?
Instrumentals *
ohhh lol
Like boards of canada for electronic
Yes, I actually like complex electronic music a little more than classical even, sometimes.
Classical music in general
I wonder how that ranks.
It depends
BUt I have not been able to find any study that would include it, because it's a bit too fringe, I suppose.
Have you heard Boards of Canada?
Yes.
That's kind of the style I like as well.
Just checking
I made an experimental remix album featuring some of their samples
Dang music nerds, the worst kind of nerds