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Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords (2024)
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Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2024). Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 41(3), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.161

This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations measurable with an affective priming method. We tested whether music... Read More about Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords.

Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals (2023)
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Armitage, J., Lahdelma, I., Eerola, T., & Ambrazevičius, R. (2023). Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals. PLoS ONE, 18(12), Article e0294645. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294645

There is debate whether the foundations of consonance and dissonance are rooted in culture or in psychoacoustics. In order to disentangle the contribution of culture and psychoacoustics, we considered automatic responses to the perfect fifth and the... Read More about Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals.

Emotional expression through musical cues: A comparison of production and perception approaches (2022)
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Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (2022). Emotional expression through musical cues: A comparison of production and perception approaches. PLoS ONE, 17(12), Article e0279605. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279605

Multiple approaches have been used to investigate how musical cues are used to shape different emotions in music. The most prominent approach is a perception study, where musical stimuli varying in cue levels are assessed by participants in terms of... Read More about Emotional expression through musical cues: A comparison of production and perception approaches.

Musical preference but not familiarity influences subjective ratings and psychophysiological correlates of music-induced emotions (2022)
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Fuentes-Sánchez, N., Pastor, R., Eerola, T., Escrig, M. A., & Pastor, M. C. (2022). Musical preference but not familiarity influences subjective ratings and psychophysiological correlates of music-induced emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 198, Article 111828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111828

Listening to music prompts strong emotional reactions in the listeners but relatively little research has focused on individual differences. This study addresses the role of musical preference and familiarity on emotions induced through music. A samp... Read More about Musical preference but not familiarity influences subjective ratings and psychophysiological correlates of music-induced emotions.

Cross-modal Transfer of Valence or Arousal from Music to Word Targets in Affective Priming? (2022)
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Armitage, J., & Eerola, T. (2022). Cross-modal Transfer of Valence or Arousal from Music to Word Targets in Affective Priming?. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 5, 192-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2087451

This registered report considers how emotion induced in an auditory modality (music) can influence affective evaluations of visual stimuli (words). Specifically, it seeks to determine which emotional dimension is transferred across modalities – valen... Read More about Cross-modal Transfer of Valence or Arousal from Music to Word Targets in Affective Priming?.

Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening (2022)
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Reybrouck, M., & Eerola, T. (2022). Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening. Behavioral Sciences, 12(5), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12050154

This article is a hypothesis and theory paper. It elaborates on the possible relation between music as a stimulus and its possible effects, with a focus on the question of why listeners are experiencing pleasure and reward. Though it is tempting to s... Read More about Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (2022)
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Street, S., Eerola, T., & Kendal, J. (2022). The role of population size in folk tune complexity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, Article 152. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01139-y

Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity.

The CODA Model: A Review and Skeptical Extension of the Constructionist Model of Emotional Episodes Induced by Music (2022)
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Lennie, T. M., & Eerola, T. (2022). The CODA Model: A Review and Skeptical Extension of the Constructionist Model of Emotional Episodes Induced by Music. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 82264. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.822264

This paper discusses contemporary advancements in the affective sciences (described together as skeptical theories) that can inform the music-emotion literature. Key concepts in these theories are outlined, highlighting their points of agreement and... Read More about The CODA Model: A Review and Skeptical Extension of the Constructionist Model of Emotional Episodes Induced by Music.

An interactive approach to emotional expression through musical cues (2022)
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Micallef Grimaud, A., & Eerola, T. (2022). An interactive approach to emotional expression through musical cues. Music & Science, 5, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211061745

Previous literature suggests that structural and expressive cues affect the emotion expressed in music. However, only a few systematic explorations of cues have been done, usually focussing on a few cues or a limited amount of predetermined arbitrary... Read More about An interactive approach to emotional expression through musical cues.

Register Impacts Perceptual Consonance through Roughness and Sharpness (2021)
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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)
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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)
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Clayton, M., Tarsitani, S., Jankowsky, R., Jure, L., Leante, L., Polak, R., …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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.