Perception Of Emotion In Sounded And Imagined Music,
2010
Bucknell University
Perception Of Emotion In Sounded And Imagined Music, Brian L. Lucas, Emery Schubert, Andrea R. Halpern
Faculty Journal Articles
WE STUDIED THE EMOTIONAL RESPONSES BY MUSICIANS to familiar classical music excerpts both when the music was sounded, and when it was imagined.We used continuous response methodology to record response profiles for the dimensions of valence and arousal simultaneously and then on the single dimension of emotionality. The response profiles were compared using cross-correlation analysis, and an analysis of responses to musical feature turning points, which isolate instances of change in musical features thought to influence valence and arousal responses. We found strong similarity between the use of an emotionality arousal scale across the stimuli, regardless of condition (imagined …
