The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts
and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book'Music and …

The position of emotion in music has been a subject of considerable interest and debate.
However emotional aspects of music have received surprising little attention in the 45 years …

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

Music emotion recognition (MER) field rapidly expanded in the last decade. Many new
methods and new audio features are developed to improve the performance of MER …

The expressive qualities of music have been a matter of discussion by philosophers and
music theorists ever since Antiquity. It has been proposed that music may express, reflect, or …

Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including
music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is …

Musically trained and untrained listeners were required to listen to 27 musical excerpts and
to group those that conveyed a similar emotional meaning (Experiment 1). The grou**s …