Atypical behavioral responses to environmental sounds are common in autistic children and
adults, with 50–70% of this population exhibiting decreased sound tolerance (DST) at some …

Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Roughness is a perceptual attribute typically associated with certain stimuli that are
presented in one of the spatial senses. In auditory research, the term is typically used to …

Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of
information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the …

Despite tremendous efforts in psychology, neuroscience and media and cultural studies, it is
still something of a mystery why humans are attracted to fictional content that is horrifying …

Why do we love music? What enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it? In From
Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre provides answers to these questions from the …

Across many species, scream calls signal the affective significance of events to other agents.
Scream calls were often thought to be of generic alarming and fearful nature, to signal …

The aim of the present study is to determine which acoustic components of harmonic
consonance and dissonance influence automatic responses in a simple cognitive task. In a …

Previous literature suggests that structural and expressive cues affect the emotion
expressed in music. However, only a few systematic explorations of cues have been done …

Sound is jointly processed along acoustic and emotional dimensions. These dimensions
can become distorted and entangled in persons with sensory disorders, producing a …