Universal and culture-specific factors in the recognition and performance of musical affect expressions

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 434-449

  Laukka, Petri ^a   Eerola, Tuomas ^b   Thingujam, Nutankumar S ^c   Yamasaki, Teruo ^d   Beller, Grégory ^e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c SIKKIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d OSAKA SHOIN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Emotion recognition; In group advantage; Music feature extraction; Music performance

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; HUMAN; INDIAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPANESE; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; JAPAN; JUDGMENT; MALE; MUSIC; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84878969597     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031388     Document Type: Article

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