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From Sound to Significance: Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music (2015)
Journal Article
Juslin, P., Barradas, G., & Eerola, T. (2015). From Sound to Significance: Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music. American Journal of Psychology, 128(3), 281-304. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.3.0281

A common approach to studying emotional reactions to music is to attempt to obtain direct links between musical surface features such as tempo and a listener’s responses. however, such an analysis ultimately fails to explain why emotions are aroused... Read More about From Sound to Significance: Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music.

Genre-adaptive Semantic Computing and Audio-based Modelling for Music Mood Annotation (2015)
Journal Article
Saari, P., Fazekas, G., Eerola, T., Barthet, M., Lartillot, O., & Sandler, M. (2016). Genre-adaptive Semantic Computing and Audio-based Modelling for Music Mood Annotation. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 7(2), 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2015.2462841

This study investigates whether taking genre into account is beneficial for automatic music mood annotation in terms of core affects valence, arousal, and tension, as well as several other mood scales. Novel techniques employing genre-adaptive semant... Read More about Genre-adaptive Semantic Computing and Audio-based Modelling for Music Mood Annotation.

Attitudes toward sad music are related to both preferential and contextual strategies (2015)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Peltola, H., & Vuoskoski, J. (2015). Attitudes toward sad music are related to both preferential and contextual strategies. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 25(2), 116-123. https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000096

Music-related sadness and its paradoxical pleasurable aspects have puzzled researchers for decades. Previous studies have highlighted the positive effects of listening to sad music and the listening strategies that focus on mood-regulation. The prese... Read More about Attitudes toward sad music are related to both preferential and contextual strategies.

Single chords convey distinct emotional qualities to both naïve and expert listeners (2014)
Journal Article
Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2016). Single chords convey distinct emotional qualities to both naïve and expert listeners. Psychology of Music, 44(1), 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735614552006

Previous research on music and emotions has been able to pinpoint many structural features conveying emotions. Empirical research on vertical harmony’s emotional qualities, however, has been rare. The main studies in harmony and emotions usually conc... Read More about Single chords convey distinct emotional qualities to both naïve and expert listeners.

Semantic Computing of Moods Based on Tags in Social Media of Music (2014)
Journal Article
Saari, P., & Eerola, T. (2014). Semantic Computing of Moods Based on Tags in Social Media of Music. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 26(10), 2548-2560. https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2013.128

Social tags inherent in online music services such as Last.fm provide a rich source of information on musical moods. The abundance of social tags makes this data highly beneficial for developing techniques to manage and retrieve mood information, and... Read More about Semantic Computing of Moods Based on Tags in Social Media of Music.

Database studies (2014)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T. (2014). Database studies. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences : an encyclopedia (316-319). SAGE Publications

Melody processing (2014)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T. (2014). Melody processing. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences : an encyclopedia (684-687). SAGE Publications

Similarity, Melodic (2014)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T. (2014). Similarity, Melodic. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences : an encyclopedia (1003-1006). SAGE Publications

Complexity (2014)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T. (2014). Complexity. In W. F. Thompson (Ed.), Music in the social and behavioral sciences : an encyclopedia (227-229). SAGE Publications

Emotional Expression in Music: Contribution, Linearity, and Additivity of Primary Musical Cues (2013)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Friberg, A., & Bresin, R. (2013). Emotional Expression in Music: Contribution, Linearity, and Additivity of Primary Musical Cues. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 487. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00487

The aim of this study is to manipulate musical cues systematically to determine the aspects of music that contribute to emotional expression, and whether these cues operate in additive or interactive fashion, and whether the cue levels can be charact... Read More about Emotional Expression in Music: Contribution, Linearity, and Additivity of Primary Musical Cues.