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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., …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.

The Other Otto Dresel: Public and Private Musical Identities in a German-American ‘Forty-Eighter’ and his Family, c1860–1880 (2021)
Journal Article
Barnes, M. (2022). The Other Otto Dresel: Public and Private Musical Identities in a German-American ‘Forty-Eighter’ and his Family, c1860–1880. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 19(3), 481-513. https://doi.org/10.1017/s147940982100015x

This essay explores the musical life of a German-American “Forty-Eighter” and his family, with particular attention to their domestic musical preferences as reflected in five surviving sheet-music albums. Otto Dresel, easily confused with the far mor... Read More about The Other Otto Dresel: Public and Private Musical Identities in a German-American ‘Forty-Eighter’ and his Family, c1860–1880.

Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence (2021)
Journal Article
Taruffi, L. (2021). Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), Article 12321. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312321

Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive thoughts and images. While music represents a promising option, work on... Read More about Mind-Wandering during Personal Music Listening in Everyday Life: Music-Evoked Emotions Predict Thought Valence.

Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto (2021)
Journal Article
Horton, J. (2021). Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto. Music Analysis, 40(3), 353-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12180

In his analysis of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37, Donald Francis Tovey dismissed Beethoven's decision to modulate for the second theme in the movement's opening tutti as an ‘error’ that gives the impression of a symph... Read More about Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type-5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto.

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.

Contrazontal Launch Concert (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Snijders, J., Schreer, M., Garner, J., & Kost, G. Contrazontal Launch Concert. [live performance]. Performed at Newcastle, England. 10 October 2021. (Unpublished)

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.

Ives Ensemble in Nijmegen (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Snijders, J., & Rijnvos, R. Ives Ensemble in Nijmegen. [live performance]. Performed at Nijmegen, Netherlands. 26 September 2021. (Unpublished)