The role of harmonic expectancy violations in musical emotions: Evidence from subjective, physiological, and neural responses

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1380-1393

  Steinbeis, Nikolaus ^a,b   Koelsch, Stefan ^a   Sloboda, John A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33748743901     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.8.1380     Document Type: Article

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