Is empathy related to the perception of emotional expression in music? a multimodal time-series analysis

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 214-223

  Wöllner, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive and affective empathy; Expressiveness; Music performance; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874005057     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027392     Document Type: Article

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