Effects of musical tempo on multiple subjective impressions

International Journal of Biometrics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-133

  Fukumoto, Makoto ^a   Matsuo, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrangement; Heart rate; Impression; Inverted U shape; KANSEI; Music; Musical tempo; Regression analysis; Relaxation; Semantic differential method; Tempo

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649328648     PISSN: 17558301     EISSN: 1755831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2010.031792     Document Type: Article

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