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From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: towards a unified theory of musical emotions.

Patrik N. Juslin
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 3, pp 235-266
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An updated and expanded version of the multi-level framework that aims to explain emotional responses to music in terms of a large set of psychological mechanisms is offered, with the addition of a mechanism corresponding to aesthetic judgments of the music, to better account for typical 'appreciation emotions' such as admiration and awe.
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This article is published in Physics of Life Reviews.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 423 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aesthetic emotions & Music and emotion.

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Generation of Aesthetic Emotions guided by Perceptual Features.

TL;DR: An experimental prototype that aims the study of aesthetics-related features from visual and auditory domains to express a set of 13 emotions to result in a series of digital abstract faces expressing certain emotional states is presented.
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Atonal Music as a Model for Investigating Exploratory Behavior

TL;DR: In this article , the authors propose that the aesthetic experience of atonal music is characterized by internal states related to exploration, which is a behavior well characterized in behavioral neuroscience as fulfilling an innate drive to reduce uncertainty but which has received little attention in empirical music research.
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The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences

TL;DR: This article investigated the terms used by researchers in peer reviewed studies to exemplify AEs and found that the presence of negative AEs is generally accepted, but not reliably, suggesting that calls to abandon the concept of AEs may be premature.
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Feeling the Beat: Temporal Predictability is Associated with Ongoing Changes in Music-Induced Pleasantness

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between temporal predictability (the ability to predict the timing of the next event) and the ongoing changes in music-induced pleasantness by tapping to the beat along three naturalistic and highly contrastive musical pieces, and the degree to which this measure could explain the ongoing emotional experience, as reflected in continuous measures of arousal and valence.
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Effects of Transitional Elements on Listeners’ Aesthetic Responses to a Choral Performance

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the effect of transitional elements on listeners' aesthetic responses to a choral performance while manipulating a Continuous Response Digital Interface to record their aesthetic responses, and find that the aesthetic responses during each transition were higher for the continuous transition group compared to the applause group.
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