When Room Size Matters: Acoustic Influences on Emotional Responses to Sounds

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 416-422

  Tajadura Jiménez, Ana ^a   Larsson, Pontus ^a   Väljamäe, Aleksander ^a,b   Västfjäll, Daniel ^a,c   Kleiner, Mendel ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c Decision Reserch   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; auditory virtual rooms; emoacoustics; emotion; room acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953238953     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018423     Document Type: Article

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