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Expressiveness in musical emotions.

Sandrine Vieillard1, Mathieu Roy, Isabelle Peretz

  • 1Laboratory of Psychology, University of Franche-Comté, 30, rue Mégevand, 25030, Besançon, France. sandrine.vieillard@univ-fcomte.fr

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Musical expression significantly impacts emotional perception and attention. Expressive music, compared to mechanical, enhances emotional ratings and captures attention more effectively, especially in musicians.

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Area of Science:

  • Music Psychology
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Music evokes a wide range of emotions.
  • The role of musical expression in emotional perception is not fully understood.
  • Individual differences, such as musical training, may modulate emotional responses to music.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of emotion category and musical expressiveness on behavioral and physiological responses.
  • To compare responses between musically trained and untrained listeners.
  • To determine the impact of mechanical versus expressive musical excerpts on emotional judgments and attention.

Main Methods:

  • Presentation of musical excerpts varying in emotion category (happiness, sadness, threat) and expressiveness (mechanical, expressive).
  • Recording of physiological measures, including skin conductance level.
  • Behavioral assessments: emotional intensity ratings and a breath detection task.

Main Results:

  • Expressive musical excerpts elicited higher emotion intensity ratings than mechanical ones, with a larger effect in musicians.
  • Expressive music increased skin conductance level more than mechanical music, irrespective of arousal.
  • Expressive music slowed response times in the breath detection task, indicating heightened attention capture.

Conclusions:

  • The performer's expression plays a crucial role in the listener's emotional response to music.
  • Musical expressiveness influences both emotional perception and attentional processes.
  • Musical training may enhance sensitivity to musical expressiveness.