This article is a tutorial for researchers who are designing software to perform a creative task
and want to evaluate their system using interdisciplinary theories of creativity. Researchers …

Rationale Recent studies have supported the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy for
mood disorders and addiction. Music is considered an important component in the treatment …

Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including
music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is …

Several studies have explored emotional reactions to music from a psychological
perspective. However, little is still known about whether such responses are invariant across …

Emotions have been found to play a paramount role in both everyday music experiences
and health applications of music, but the applicability of musical emotions depends on: 1) …

A well-known tradition in the study of visual aesthetics holds that the experience of visual
beauty is grounded in global computational or statistical properties of the stimulus, for …

While it has extensively been argued that aesthetic categories such as beauty have a direct
relationship to emotion, there has only been limited psychological research on the …

Music is commonly regarded as one of the fine arts, but aesthetic responses to music are still
poorly understood. The aim of this study was thus to shed light on the psychological process …

Music is often used to alleviate depression, an affective disorder. Yet, little is known about
how listeners suffering from depression respond emotionally to music. The goal of this study …

This work presents results and models for listener preference to music delivered via different
spatial reproduction formats, here via mono, stereo and multichannel (5.1-ch) reproduction …