Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool

I Schindler, G Hosoya, W Menninghaus, U Beermann… - PloS one, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
Aesthetic perception and judgement are not merely cognitive processes, but also involve
feelings. Therefore, the empirical study of these experiences requires conceptualization and …

[HTML][HTML] From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: Towards a unified theory of musical emotions

PN Juslin - Physics of life reviews, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The sound of music may arouse profound emotions in listeners. But such experiences seem
to involve a 'paradox', namely that music–an abstract form of art, which appears removed …

[ספר][B] Music and embodied cognition: Listening, moving, feeling, and thinking

A Cox - 2016‏ - books.google.com
Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied
experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In …

The distancing-embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception

W Menninghaus, V Wagner, J Hanich… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Art and psychological well-being: Linking the brain to the aesthetic emotion

S Mastandrea, S Fagioli, V Biasi - Frontiers in psychology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals.
However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote …

Why is music therapeutic for neurological disorders? The Therapeutic Music Capacities Model

O Brancatisano, A Baird, WF Thompson - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …

Music, empathy and cultural understanding

E Clarke, T DeNora, J Vuoskoski - Physics of life reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies,
music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a …

The pleasures of sad music: a systematic review

ME Sachs, A Damasio, A Habibi - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse
situations. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree …

[HTML][HTML] The paradox of music-evoked sadness: An online survey

L Taruffi, S Koelsch - PloS one, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
This study explores listeners' experience of music-evoked sadness. Sadness is typically
assumed to be undesirable and is therefore usually avoided in everyday life. Yet the …

[HTML][HTML] A coordinate-based meta-analysis of music-evoked emotions

S Koelsch - NeuroImage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Since the publication of the first neuroscience study investigating emotion with music about
two decades ago, the number of functional neuroimaging studies published on this topic has …