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Reaction Time Data in Music Cognition: Comparison of Pilot Data From Lab, Crowdsourced, and Convenience Web Samples (2020)
Journal Article
Armitage, J., & Eerola, T. (2020). Reaction Time Data in Music Cognition: Comparison of Pilot Data From Lab, Crowdsourced, and Convenience Web Samples. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 2883. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02883

Reaction time (RT) methods have been a mainstay of research in cognitive psychology for over a century. RT methods have been applied in domains as diverse as visual perception (e.g., Ando et al., 2002), personality traits (e.g., Robinson and Tamir, 2... Read More about Reaction Time Data in Music Cognition: Comparison of Pilot Data From Lab, Crowdsourced, and Convenience Web Samples.

Coupled whole-body rhythmic entrainment between two chimpanzees (2019)
Journal Article
Lameira, A., Eerola, T., & Ravignani, A. (2019). Coupled whole-body rhythmic entrainment between two chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 18914. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55360-y

Dance is an icon of human expression. Despite astounding diversity around the world’s cultures and dazzling abundance of reminiscent animal systems, the evolution of dance in the human clade remains obscure. Dance requires individuals to interactivel... Read More about Coupled whole-body rhythmic entrainment between two chimpanzees.

Ambivalent Emotional Experiences of Everyday Visual and Musical Objects (2019)
Journal Article
Maksimainen, J. P., Eerola, T., & Saarikallio, S. H. (2019). Ambivalent Emotional Experiences of Everyday Visual and Musical Objects. SAGE Open, 9(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019876319

Art brings rich, pleasurable experiences to our daily lives. However, many theories of art and aesthetics focus on specific strong experiences—in the contexts of museums, galleries, and concert halls and the aesthetic perception of canonized arts—dis... Read More about Ambivalent Emotional Experiences of Everyday Visual and Musical Objects.

Interpersonal entrainment in Indian instrumental music performance: Synchronization and movement coordination relate to tempo, dynamics, metrical and cadential structure (2019)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., Jakubowski, K., & Eerola, T. (2019). Interpersonal entrainment in Indian instrumental music performance: Synchronization and movement coordination relate to tempo, dynamics, metrical and cadential structure. Musicae Scientiae, 23(3), 304-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864919844809

Two complementary aspects of interpersonal entrainment – synchronization and movement coordination – are explored in North Indian classical instrumental music, in the auditory and visual domains respectively. Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) is exp... Read More about Interpersonal entrainment in Indian instrumental music performance: Synchronization and movement coordination relate to tempo, dynamics, metrical and cadential structure.

The Content and Functions of Vivid and Soothing Visual Imagery during Music Listening: Findings from a Survey Study (2019)
Journal Article
Küssner, M., & Eerola, T. (2019). The Content and Functions of Vivid and Soothing Visual Imagery during Music Listening: Findings from a Survey Study. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 29(2-3), 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000238

Studies have suggested that visual imagery forms an important part of the listening experience and might be one of the mechanisms by which music induces emotions in a listener. However, little is known about the content, prevalence, and function of v... Read More about The Content and Functions of Vivid and Soothing Visual Imagery during Music Listening: Findings from a Survey Study.

The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome (2019)
Journal Article
Becker, S., Bräscher, A., Bannister, S., Bensafi, M., Calma-Birling, D., Chan, R., …Wang, Y. (2019). The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 102, 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.003

Experiencing pleasure and displeasure is a fundamental part of life. Hedonics guide behavior, affect decision-making, induce learning, and much more. As the positive and negative valence of feelings, hedonics are core processes that accompany emotion... Read More about The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome.

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.

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.

Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction (2017)
Journal Article
Vuoskoski, J., & Eerola, T. (2017). Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 42-43. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1700187x

Any model aiming to explain the enjoyment of negative emotions in the context of the arts should consider how works of art are able to induce emotional responses in the first place. For instance, research on empathy and the arts suggests that the psy... Read More about Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction.

An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music (2017)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Peltola, H., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2017). An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.016

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic. However, none of these have attempted to weigh the existing evidence in a sys... Read More about An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music.

Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences (2017)
Journal Article
Bonneville-Roussy, A., & Eerola, T. (2018). Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences. Musicae Scientiae, 22(3), 394-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864917718606

Increased age has been found to be associated with differences in musical preferences in adulthood. In past research, these differences were mostly attributed to changes in the social context. However, these influences were small and a large proporti... Read More about Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences.