All Outputs (16)

Register Impacts Perceptual Consonance through Roughness and Sharpness (2021)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., & Lahdelma, I. (2022). Register Impacts Perceptual Consonance through Roughness and Sharpness. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29(3), 800-808. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02033-5

The perception of consonance and dissonance in intervals and chords is influenced by psychoacoustic and cultural factors. Past research has provided conflicting observations about the role of frequency in assessing musical consonance that may stem fr... Read More about Register Impacts Perceptual Consonance through Roughness and Sharpness.

Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music (2021)
Journal Article
Fuentes-Sánchez, N., Pastor, M., Eerola, T., & Pastor, R. (2023). Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music. Musicae Scientiae, 27(2), 313–331. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211060028

Although music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, there are considerable individual differences in music reward sensitivity. Behavioral and neurobiological characterizations of music reward variability have been topics... Read More about Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music.

The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection (2021)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., Tarsitani, S., Jankowsky, R., Jure, L., Leante, L., Polak, R., Poole, A., Rocamora, M., Alborno, P., Camurri, A., Eerola, T., Jacoby, N., & Jakubowski, K. (2021). The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 65-84. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i1.7555

The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection (IEMPDC) comprises six related corpora of music research materials: Cuban Son & Salsa (CSS), European String Quartet (ESQ), Malian Jembe (MJ), North Indian Raga (NIR), Tunisian Stambe... Read More about The Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance Data Collection.

Music evokes fewer but more positive autobiographical memories than emotionally matched sound and word cues (2021)
Journal Article
Jakubowski, K., & Eerola, T. (2022). Music evokes fewer but more positive autobiographical memories than emotionally matched sound and word cues. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(2), 272-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.09.002

Anecdotal propositions that music is “special” as a memory cue have been partially supported by research demonstrating that music can evoke qualitatively different autobiographical memories than various other cues. However, it is unknown whether such... Read More about Music evokes fewer but more positive autobiographical memories than emotionally matched sound and word cues.

Online Data Collection in Auditory Perception and Cognition Research: Recruitment, Testing, Data Quality and Ethical Considerations (2021)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Armitage, J., Lavan, N., & Knight, S. (2021). Online Data Collection in Auditory Perception and Cognition Research: Recruitment, Testing, Data Quality and Ethical Considerations. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 4(3-4), 251-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2021.2007718

Online studies using recruitment services (such as Prolific or Amazon's MTurk) and online testing platforms (such as Gorilla or PsyToolkit) are becoming increasingly common in psychological science. Although auditory disciplines have been slower to a... Read More about Online Data Collection in Auditory Perception and Cognition Research: Recruitment, Testing, Data Quality and Ethical Considerations.

Music Emotion Recognition: Toward new, robust standards in personalized and context-sensitive applications (2021)
Journal Article
Gómez, J., Cano, C., Eerola, T., Gomez, E., Herrera, P., Yang, Y., & Hu, X. (2021). Music Emotion Recognition: Toward new, robust standards in personalized and context-sensitive applications. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 38(6), 106-114. https://doi.org/10.1109/msp.2021.3106232

Emotion is one of the main reasons why people engage and interact with music [1] . Songs can express our inner feelings, produce goosebumps, bring us to tears, share an emotional state with a composer or performer, or trigger specific memories. Inter... Read More about Music Emotion Recognition: Toward new, robust standards in personalized and context-sensitive applications.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint) (2021)
Journal Article
Street, S., Eerola, T., & Kendal, J. The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2he8k. Manuscript submitted for publication

A positive correlation between population size and cultural complexity is perhaps one of the most consistent findings in the field of cultural evolution. However, previous findings are largely based on studies of technology and are not necessarily ge... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint).

Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills (2021)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., & Eerola, T. (2023). Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(2), 242-258. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000421

It is unclear how music elicits chills (emotional experiences accompanied by goosebumps, shivers, and tingling sensations), and what psychological mechanisms underlie the response. Crucially, current explanations of chills struggle to encapsulate the... Read More about Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.

Automatic responses to musical intervals: Contrasts in acoustic roughness predict affective priming in Western listeners (2021)
Journal Article
Armitage, J., Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2021). Automatic responses to musical intervals: Contrasts in acoustic roughness predict affective priming in Western listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(1), Article 551. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005623

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 series of affective priming experiments, eight pairs of musical intervals were... Read More about Automatic responses to musical intervals: Contrasts in acoustic roughness predict affective priming in Western listeners.

Being moved by listening to unfamiliar sad music induces reward-related hormonal changes in empathic listeners (2021)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Kautiainen, H., Peltola, H., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2021). Being moved by listening to unfamiliar sad music induces reward-related hormonal changes in empathic listeners. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1502(1), 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14660

Many people enjoy sad music and the appeal for tragedy is widespread among the consumers of film and literature. The underlying mechanisms of such aesthetic experiences are not well understood. We tested whether the pleasure induced by sad, unfamilia... Read More about Being moved by listening to unfamiliar sad music induces reward-related hormonal changes in empathic listeners.

Sweetness is in the ear of the beholder: chord preference across United Kingdom and Pakistani listeners (2021)
Journal Article
Lahdelma, I., Athanasopoulos, G., & Eerola, T. (2021). Sweetness is in the ear of the beholder: chord preference across United Kingdom and Pakistani listeners. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1502(1), 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14655

The majority of research in the field of music perception has been conducted with Western participants, and it has remained unclear which aspects of music perception are culture dependent, and which are universal. The current study compared how parti... Read More about Sweetness is in the ear of the beholder: chord preference across United Kingdom and Pakistani listeners.

Phenomenological Differences in Music- and Television-Evoked Autobiographical Memories (2021)
Journal Article
Jakubowski, K., Belfi, A., & Eerola, T. (2021). Phenomenological Differences in Music- and Television-Evoked Autobiographical Memories. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 38(5), 435-455. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.38.5.435

Music can be a potent cue for autobiographical memories in both everyday and clinical settings. Understanding the extent to which music may have privileged access to aspects of our personal histories requires critical comparisons to other types of me... Read More about Phenomenological Differences in Music- and Television-Evoked Autobiographical Memories.

The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords (2021)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., & Lahdelma, I. (2021). The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords. Music & Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211030471

Acoustic and musical components of consonance and dissonance perception have been recently identified. This study expands the range of predictors of consonance and dissonance by three analytical operations. In Experiment 1, we identify the underlying... Read More about The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords.

Personality and Listeners (2021)
Book Chapter
Eerola, T., & Vuoskoski, J. K. (2021). Personality and Listeners. In W. F. Thompson, & K. Olsen (Eds.), The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym (141-145). Bloomsbury Publishing

Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music (2021)
Journal Article
Athanasopoulos, G., Eerola, T., Lahdelma, I., & Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M. (2021). Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music. PLoS ONE, 16(1), Article e0244964. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244964

Previous research conducted on the cross-cultural perception of music and its emotional content has established that emotions can be communicated across cultures at least on a rudimentary level. Here, we report a cross-cultural study with participant... Read More about Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music.

Personality and Musicians (2021)
Book Chapter
Vuoskoski, J. K., & Eerola, T. (2021). Personality and Musicians. In W. F. Thompson, & K. Olsen (Eds.), The Science and Psychology of Music: From Mozart at the Office to Metallica at the Gym (145-150). Santa Barbara, CA, US: Greenwood