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Music communicates affects, not basic emotions – A constructionist account of attribution of emotional meanings to music (2018)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Involuntary and voluntary recall of musical memories: A comparison of temporal accuracy and emotional responses (2018)
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Jakubowski, K., Bashir, Z., Farrugia, N., & Stewart, L. (2018). Involuntary and voluntary recall of musical memories: A comparison of temporal accuracy and emotional responses. Memory and Cognition, 46(5), 741-756. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0792-x

Comparisons between involuntarily and voluntarily retrieved autobiographical memories have revealed similarities in encoding and maintenance, with differences in terms of specificity and emotional responses. Our study extended this research area into... Read More about Involuntary and voluntary recall of musical memories: A comparison of temporal accuracy and emotional responses.

Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements (2018)
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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)
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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.

Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network (2017)
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Taruffi, L., Pehrs, C., Skouras, S., & Koelsch, S. (2017). Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 14396. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14849-0

Music is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human cultures, mostly due to its power to evoke and regulate emotions. However, effects of music evoking different emotional experiences such as sadness and happiness on cognition, and in particular on self-genera... Read More about Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network.

Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form (2017)
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Horton, J. (2017). Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form. Music Theory and Analysis, 4(2), 147-191. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.4.2.1

Thanks to the work of Janet Schmalfeldt, James Hepokoski, Steven Vande Moortele, and others, progress toward a theory of form for nineteenth-century instrumental music has accelerated in recent years. This article addresses some of the theoretical an... Read More about Criteria for a Theory of Nineteenth-Century Sonata Form.

Corposing a History of Electronic Music (2017)
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Collins, N. (2017). Corposing a History of Electronic Music. Leonardo music journal, 27, 47-48. https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01010

A current research project led by the author has collated nearly 2,000 historic electronic music works for the purposes of musicology; nonetheless, this collection is highly amenable to composition. New pieces can be realized by rendering a selected... Read More about Corposing a History of Electronic Music.

An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music (2017)
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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)
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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.

Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data (2017)
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Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Alborno, P., Volpe, G., Camurri, A., & Clayton, M. (2017). Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data. Frontiers in digital humanities, 4, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00009

The measurement and tracking of body movement within musical performances can provide valuable sources of data for studying interpersonal interaction and coordination between musicians. The continued development of tools to extract such data from vid... Read More about Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data.

Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression (2017)
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Garrido, S., Eerola, T., & McFerran, K. (2017). Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00490

One of the most important roles that music serves in human society is the promotion of social relationships and group cohesion. In general, emotional experiences tend to be amplified in group settings through processes of social feedback. However, pr... Read More about Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression.

Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions (2017)
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Reybrouck, M., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 494. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00494

The aim of this contribution is to broaden the concept of musical meaning from an abstract and emotionally neutral cognitive representation to an emotion-integrating description that is related to the evolutionary approach to music. Starting from the... Read More about Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions.