Naturalistic stimuli such as movies, music, and spoken and written stories elicit strong
emotions and allow brain imaging of emotions in close-to-real-life conditions. Emotions are …

Abstract Effect sizes are an important outcome of quantitative research, but few guidelines
exist that explain how researchers can determine which effect sizes are meaningful …

A common approach for determining musical competence is to rely on information about
individuals' extent of musical training, but relying on musicianship status fails to identify …

This article investigates an age-old, puzzling question: how can a negatively valenced
emotion such as sadness go together with aesthetic liking and even pleasure? We propose …

Music information retrieval (MIR) is a fast-growing research area. One of its aims is to extract
musical characteristics from audio. In this study, we assumed the roles of researchers …

The aim of this study wants to verify the role of soundscape participation and soundscape
satisfaction in the formation of tourist loyalty in nature-based tourism with soundscape …

Music listening can be an effective strategy for regulating affect, leading to positive well-
being. However, it is unclear how differences in disposition and personality can impact …

As demonstrated by many of the chapters in this book, the intimate connections between
emotions and music have multiple facets that have fascinated musicians, scientists, and …

An exploration of the physiological correlates of subjective emotional states has theoretical
and practical significance. Previous studies have reported that subjective valence and …

There is strong evidence of shared acoustic profiles common to the expression of emotions
in music and speech, yet relatively limited understanding of the specific psychoacoustic …