Outputs (7)

Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy (2016)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Kautiainen, H. (2016). Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1176. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01176

The paradox of enjoying listening to music that evokes sadness is yet to be fully understood. Unlike prior studies that have explored potential explanations related to lyrics, memories, and mood regulation, we investigated the types of emotions induc... Read More about Being Moved by Unfamiliar Sad Music Is Associated with High Empathy.

Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity (2016)
Journal Article
Eerola, T. (2016). Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity. Empirical Musicology Review, 11(1), 2-17. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i1.4836

The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy violations and the other one related to an information-theoretic account of redundancy in music. Seven different datasets spanning artificial sequences, fo... Read More about Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity.

Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception (2016)
Journal Article
Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2016). Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception. i-Perception, 7(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516655812

Previous research on harmony perception has mainly been concerned with horizontal aspects of harmony, turning less attention to how listeners perceive psychoacoustic qualities and emotions in single isolated chords. A recent study found mild dissonan... Read More about Mild dissonance preferred over consonance in single chord perception.

Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences (2016)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., & Peltola, H. (2016). Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences. PLoS ONE, 11(6), Article e0157444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157444

Reactions to memorable experiences of sad music were studied by means of a survey administered to a convenience (N = 1577), representative (N = 445), and quota sample (N = 414). The survey explored the reasons, mechanisms, and emotions of such experi... Read More about Memorable Experiences with Sad Music—Reasons, Reactions and Mechanisms of Three Types of Experiences.

Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries (2016)
Journal Article
Hausmann, M., Hodgetts, S., & Eerola, T. (2016). Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries. Brain and Cognition, 104, 58-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2016.03.001

After decades of research, it remains unclear whether emotion lateralization occurs because one hemisphere is dominant for processing the emotional content of the stimuli, or whether emotional stimuli activate lateralised networks associated with the... Read More about Music-induced changes in functional cerebral asymmetries.

Fifty Shades of Blue: Classification of music-evoked sadness (2016)
Journal Article
Peltola, H., & Eerola, T. (2016). Fifty Shades of Blue: Classification of music-evoked sadness. Musicae Scientiae, 20(1), 84-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864915611206

It has been repeatedly shown that sad music induces mainly pleasant or mixed emotions, and is particularly relevant for self-regulation goals. However, this is not entirely compatible with the view that sadness is one of the basic emotions experience... Read More about Fifty Shades of Blue: Classification of music-evoked sadness.

It’s sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons (2016)
Journal Article
Brattico, E., Bogert, B., Alluri, V., Tervaniemi, M., Eerola, T., & Jacobsen, T. (2016). It’s sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, Article 676. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00676

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to pleasurable music. Indeed, in music, like in other arts, sad and happy... Read More about It’s sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons.