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Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music

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A crosscultural study with participants from a native African population (Mafa) and Western participants, with both groups being naive to the music of the other respective culture, shows that consonance and permanent sensory dissonance universally influence the perceived pleasantness of music.
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This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2009-04-14 and is currently open access. It has received 476 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Music and emotion & Music psychology.

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Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions

TL;DR: Functional neuroimaging studies on music and emotion show that music can modulate activity in brain structures that are known to be crucially involved in emotion, such as the amygdala, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, hippocampus, insula, cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex.
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Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia

TL;DR: Investigation of congenital amusia, a lifelong disorder of musical processing, impacts sensitivity to musical emotion elicited by timbre and tonal system information finds amusics rated Western melodies as more tense compared to controls, as they relied less on tonality cues than controls in rating tension for Western melodies.

Music emotion recognition: A state of the art review

TL;DR: A survey of the state of the art in automatic emotion recognition in music can be found in this article, where the authors explore a wide range of research in music emotion recognition, particularly focusing on methods that use contextual text information (e.g., websites, tags, and lyrics) and content-based approaches, as well as systems combining multiple feature domains.
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From Perception to Pleasure: Music and Its Neural Substrates

TL;DR: It is proposed that pleasure in music arises from interactions between cortical loops that enable predictions and expectancies to emerge from sound patterns and subcortical systems responsible for reward and valuation.
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Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music

TL;DR: It is speculated that group coordination is the common aspect unifying the cross-cultural structural regularities of human music, with implications for the study of music evolution.
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Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code?

TL;DR: A review of 104 studies of vocal expression and 41 studies of music performance reveals similarities between the two channels concerning (a) the accuracy with which discrete emotions were communicated to listeners and (b) the emotion-specific patterns of acoustic cues used to communicate each emotion as mentioned in this paper.
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Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion

TL;DR: Observers in both literate and preliterate cultures chose the predicted emotion for photographs of the face, although agreement was higher in the literate samples, suggesting that the pan-cultural element in facial displays of emotion is the association between facial muscular movements and discrete primary emotions.
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