Expression of emotion in Eastern and Western music mirrors vocalization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bowling, Daniel Liu ^a,b,c   Sundararajan, Janani ^a   Han, Shui'er ^a   Purves, Dale ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN ENGLISH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN MUSIC; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; SPEECH; TAMIL; TONALITY; VOCALIZATION; WESTERN MUSIC;

EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; SPEECH;

EID: 84858254430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031942     Document Type: Article

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