[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity

VKM Cheung, PMC Harrison, L Meyer, MT Pearce… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

Embodied listening and timbre: Perceptual, acoustical, and neural correlates

Z Wallmark, M Iacoboni, C Deblieck… - Music Perception: An …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Timbre plays an essential role in transmitting musical affect, and in recent years, our
understanding of emotional expression in music has been enriched by contributions from …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-cultural analysis of the influence of timbre on affect perception in western classical music and chinese music traditions

X Wang, Y Wei, L Heng, S McAdams - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Timbre is one of the psychophysical cues that has a great impact on affect perception,
although, it has not been the subject of much cross-cultural research. Our aim is to …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of dimensional and discrete models for the representation of perceived and induced affect in response to short musical sounds

IR Korsmit, M Montrey, AYT Wong-Min… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction In musical affect research, there is considerable discussion on the best method
to represent affective response. This discussion mainly revolves around the dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] Register impacts perceptual consonance through roughness and sharpness

T Eerola, I Lahdelma - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 - Springer
The perception of consonance and dissonance in intervals and chords is influenced by
psychoacoustic and cultural factors. Past research has provided conflicting observations …

Musical anhedonia, timbre, and the rewards of music listening

N Kathios, AD Patel, P Loui - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Pleasure in music has been linked to predictive coding of melodic and rhythmic patterns,
subserved by connectivity between regions in the brain's auditory and reward networks …

The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity

HE Kragness, EK Johnson, LK Cirelli - Developmental Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parent's infant‐directed vocalizations are highly dynamic and emotive compared to their
adult‐directed counterparts, and correspondingly, more effectively capture infants' attention …

Audio content descriptors of timbre

M Caetano, C Saitis, K Siedenburg - Timbre: Acoustics, perception, and …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter introduces acoustic modeling of timbre with the audio descriptors commonly
used in music, speech, and environmental sound studies. These descriptors derive from …

Timbre semantic associations vary both between and within instruments: An empirical study incorporating register and pitch height

L Reymore, J Noble, C Saitis, C Traube… - Music Perception: An …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
The main objective of this study is to understand how timbre semantic associations—for
example, a sound's timbre perceived as bright, rough, or hollow—vary with register and pitch …

Does timbre modulate visual perception? Exploring crossmodal interactions

Z Wallmark, L Nghiem, LE Marks - Music Perception: An …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Musical timbre is often described using terms from non-auditory senses, mainly vision and
touch; but it is not clear whether crossmodality in timbre semantics reflects multisensory …