Affective priming through Indian ragas: influence on perception of ambiguous visual stimuli and creativity.

ABSTRACT: Indian ragas have captivated a sustained scholarly interest over the past few years owing to their capacity to evoke emotional, therapeutic and physiological benefits. A conspicuous research gap persists: ragas have seldom been examined as an affective prime; their unconscious influence on subsequent perception, behavior, and creativity remains unexplored and antecedent research into music and creativity has predominantly been confined to background music only. This research endeavored to ascertain whether ragas of two contrasting emotional valences of happiness and sadness unconsciously influence the emotional expression and perception congruent with the primed affective tone, while also bolstering divergent thinking. Participants (n = 90) were randomly assigned to an experimental

SUBMITTER: Deen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12894212 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature