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The effect of memory in inducing pleasant emotions with musical and pictorial stimuli (2018)
Journal Article
Maksimainen, J., Wikgren, J., Eerola, T., & Saarikallio, S. (2018). The effect of memory in inducing pleasant emotions with musical and pictorial stimuli. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 17638. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35899-y

Music is known to evoke emotions through a range of mechanisms, but empirical investigation into the mechanisms underlying different emotions is sparse. This study investigated how affective experiences to music and pictures vary when induced by pers... Read More about The effect of memory in inducing pleasant emotions with musical and pictorial stimuli.

Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response (2018)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., & Eerola, T. (2018). Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 2046. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02046

Research on musical chills has linked the response to multiple musical features; however, there exists no study that has attempted to manipulate musical stimuli to enable causal inferences, meaning current understanding is based mainly on correlation... Read More about Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response.

How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: an exploratory study of social surrogacy (2018)
Journal Article
Schäfer, K., & Eerola, T. (2020). How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: an exploratory study of social surrogacy. Psychology of Music, 48(2), 232-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618795036

The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we investigate social motives for listening to music in compariso... Read More about How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: an exploratory study of social surrogacy.

Towards a more explicit account of the transformation: Reply to comments on “An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music” (2018)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Peltola, H., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2018). Towards a more explicit account of the transformation: Reply to comments on “An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music”. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 156-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.06.013

Music and Emotion (2018)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T. (2018). Music and Emotion. In R. Bader (Ed.), Springer handbook of systematic musicology (539-554). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_29

The rapid rise in emotion research in psychology has brought forth a rich palette of concepts and tools for studying emotions expressed and induced by music. This chapter summarizes the current state of music and emotion research, starting with the f... Read More about Music and Emotion.

Music communicates affects, not basic emotions – A constructionist account of attribution of emotional meanings to music (2018)
Journal Article
Cespedes-Guevara, J., & Eerola, T. (2018). Music communicates affects, not basic emotions – A constructionist account of attribution of emotional meanings to music. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 215. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00215

Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is constrained to a limited set of basic emotions. Several scholars suggested that... Read More about Music communicates affects, not basic emotions – A constructionist account of attribution of emotional meanings to music.

Shared Periodic Performer Movements Coordinate Interactions in Duo Improvisations (2018)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Jakubowski, K., Moran, N., Keller, P., & Clayton, M. (2018). Shared Periodic Performer Movements Coordinate Interactions in Duo Improvisations. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2), Article 171520. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171520

Human interaction involves the exchange of temporally coordinated, multimodal cues. Our work focused on interaction in the visual domain, using music performance as a case for analysis due to its temporally diverse and hierarchical structures. We mad... Read More about Shared Periodic Performer Movements Coordinate Interactions in Duo Improvisations.

Editorial: Music and the Functions of the Brain: Arousal, Emotions, and Pleasure (2018)
Journal Article
Reybrouck, M., Eerola, T., & Podlipniak, P. (2018). Editorial: Music and the Functions of the Brain: Arousal, Emotions, and Pleasure. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 113. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00113

Music impinges upon the body and the brain and has inductive power, relying on both innate dispositions and acquired mechanisms for coping with the sounds. This process is partly autonomous and partly deliberate, but multiple interrelations between s... Read More about Editorial: Music and the Functions of the Brain: Arousal, Emotions, and Pleasure.

Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements (2018)
Journal Article
Hadley, L., Sturt, P., Eerola, T., & Pickering, M. (2018). Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1307861

To investigate how proficient pianists comprehend pitch relationships in written music when they first encounter it we conducted two experiments in which proficient pianists’ eyes were tracked while they read and played single-line melodies. In Exper... Read More about Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements.