“Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

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American cognitive scientist 1927–2016

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