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 …

Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why
people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

The design of meaningful audio features is a key need to advance the state-of-the-art in
music emotion recognition (MER). This article presents a survey on the existing emotionally …

The primary aim of the present study was to systematically compare perceived emotions in
music using two different theoretical frameworks: the discrete emotion model, and the …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

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 …

Without doubt, there is emotional information in almost any kind of sound received by
humans every day: be it the affective state of a person transmitted by means of speech; the …

The increasingly intensive study of music by neuroscientists over the past two decades has
established the neurosciences of music as a subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience …

Examining the intersection of music, psychology, and neuroscience, Music, Thought, and
Feeling, Second Edition, surveys the rapidly growing field of music cognition and explores …