Analysis of musical appreciation by means of the psychogalvanic reflex technique.

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Abstract
Results of this study indicate that the psychogalvanic reflex is of little value in the specific analysis of musical appreciation; and that, at its present stage of development, galvanometric technique for psychological application and interpretation is unprofitable for the following reasons: (1) the impossibility of isolating and controlling all of the phenomena and conditions involved; (2) the intangibility and variability in the subjective aspects involved in responding to complex stimuli; (3) lack of sufficient knowledge of the true physiological significance of the reflex; (4) inadequacy of present mathematical formulas for treating scores expressed as ratio values. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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