dc.contributor.author	Egermann, Hauke
dc.contributor.author	Fernando, Nathalie
dc.contributor.author	Chuen, Lorraine
dc.contributor.author	McAdams, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-21T09:47:19Z
dc.date.issued	2015-01-07
dc.date.updated	2019-10-11T18:17:50Z
dc.description.abstract	Subjective and psychophysiological emotional responses to music from two different cultures were compared within these two cultures. Two identical experiments were conducted: the first in the Congolese rainforest with an isolated population of Mebenzélé Pygmies without any exposure to Western music and culture, the second with a group of Western music listeners, with no experience with Congolese music. Forty Pygmies and 40 Canadians listened in pairs to 19 music excerpts of 29–99 s in duration in random order (eight from the Pygmy population and 11 Western instrumental excerpts). For both groups, emotion components were continuously measured: subjective feeling (using a two- dimensional valence and arousal rating interface), peripheral physiological activation, and facial expression. While Pygmy music was rated as positive and arousing by Pygmies, ratings of Western music by Westerners covered the range from arousing to calming and from positive to negative. Comparing psychophysiological responses to emotional qualities of Pygmy music across participant groups showed no similarities. However, Western stimuli, rated as high and low arousing by Canadians, created similar responses in both participant groups (with high arousal associated with increases in subjective and physiological activation). Several low-level acoustical features of the music presented (tempo, pitch, and timbre) were shown to affect subjective and physiological arousal similarly in both cultures. Results suggest that while the subjective dimension of emotional valence might be mediated by cultural learning, changes in arousal might involve a more basic, universal response to low-level acoustical characteristics of music.	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1664-1078
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10147
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9136
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.subject.ddc	780 Musik	de
dc.subject.other	emotion	en
dc.subject.other	affect	en
dc.subject.other	music	en
dc.subject.other	psychophysiology	en
dc.subject.other	universal	en
dc.subject.other	cross-cultural	en
dc.title	Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber	1341	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi	10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01341	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Frontiers in Psychology	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername	Frontiers Media S.A.	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Lausanne	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	5	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	free	en
tub.affiliation	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Sprache und Kommunikation::FG Audiokommunikation	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften	de
tub.affiliation.group	FG Audiokommunikation	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Inst. Sprache und Kommunikation	de
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en

Music induces universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: comparing Canadian listeners to Congolese Pygmies

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