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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.

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.