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Emotional Responses During Music
Listening
Konstantinos Trochidis and Emmanuel Bigand
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to summarize and present the current knowledge about
music and emotion from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Existing emotional
models and their adequacy in describing emotional responses to music are
described and discussed in different applications. The underlying emotion
induction mechanisms beside cognitive appraisal are presented, and their
implications on the
field are analyzed. Musical characteristics such as tempo,
mode, loudness, and so on are inherent properties of the musical structure and
have been shown to in
uence the emotional states during music listening. The
role of each individual parameter on emotional responses as well as their
interactions is reviewed and analyzed. Different ways of measuring emotional
responses to music are described, and their adequacy in accounting for emotional
responses to music is discussed. The main physiological responses to music
listening are brie
y discussed, and their application to emotion recognition and
to emotion intelligence in human
machine interaction is described. Music
processing in the brain involves different brain areas and several studies
attempted to investigate brain activity in relation to emotion during music
listening through EEG signals. The issues and challenges of assessing human
emotion through EEG are presented and discussed. Finally, an overview of
problems that remain to be addressed in future research is given.
