Enhancing emotional experiences to dance through music: The role of valence and arousal in the cross-modal bias

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Christensen, Julia F ^a   Gaigg, Sebastian B ^b   Gomila, Antoni ^a   Oke, Peter ^b   Calvo Merino, Beatriz ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affective body movement; Arousal; Cross modal; Multisensory; Neuroentrainment; Neuroesthetics; Psychology of emotion; Valence

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SADNESS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 84933678276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00757     Document Type: Article

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