A study of 132 audience members of three classical public concerts (all three staged the
same chamber music pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms) …

While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic
stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic contexts by assessing physiological …

Entrainment and synchronization play major roles in understanding the emotional effects of
music; thus, we were interested in synchronized responses of concert audiences listening to …

Music is listened to in many different situational and media frames that can be expected to
shape its experience. In this study, we were interested in the effects that different formats of …

During a live concert, the mind can wander to unrelated thoughts such as personal concerns
or past memories or to vivid images that are inspired by the music. This is an omnipresent …

Current models of aesthetic experience of music (AEM) have emerged in the recent years
capitalizing on evidence from psychology and neuroscience research, thus modeling mainly …

Live concerts normally involve gathering at the same time and place. In livestreamed
concerts, participants may gather in time but not in space, providing a natural comparison for …

The study of interbrain coupling in a group of people attending a concert together is a
favorable framework to estimate group emotions and more precisely emotional connection …

Compared to audio only (AO) conditions, audiovisual (AV) information can enhance the
aesthetic experience of a music performance. However, such beneficial multimodal effects …

Atonal music is often characterized by low predictability stemming from the absence of tonal
or metrical hierarchies. In contrast, Western tonal music exhibits intrinsic predictability due to …