It's not what you play, it's how you play it: Timbre affects perception of emotion in music

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2141-2155

  Hailstone, Julia C ^a   Omar, Rohani ^a   Henley, Susie M D ^a   Frost, Chris ^a,b   Kenward, Michael G ^b   Warren, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory object; Emotion; Music; Timbre

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349527979     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902765957     Document Type: Article

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