The sound of arousal in music is contextdependent

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 744-747

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Bryant, Gregory A ^a   Kaye, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Fear; Frequency modulation; Noise; Nonlinearities; Valence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISM; MUSIC; NOISE; NONLINEARITY; PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866696715     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374     Document Type: Article

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