Musical aesthetic sensitivity.

Mapping Aesthetic Musical Emotions in the Brain

Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigated in neuroscience. Here, we used functional neuroimaging with parametric analyses based on the intensity of felt emotions to explore a wider spectrum of affective responses reported during music listening. Positive emotions correlated with activation of left striatum and insula when high-arousin...

Sensitivity to musical emotions in congenital amusia.

The emotional experience elicited by music is largely dependent on structural characteristics such as pitch, rhythm, and dynamics. We examine here to what extent amusic adults, who have experienced pitch perception difficulties all their lives, still maintain some ability to perceive emotions from music. Amusic and control participants judged the emotions expressed by unfamiliar musical clips i...

Spectral Envelope Sensitivity of Musical Instruments

Abstract In musical instrument timbre perception, it is well known that one of the most salient parameters is the spectral envelope. While a number of studies have explored discrimination thresholds for changes to the spectral envelope, the question of how sensitivity varies as a function of centre frequency and bandwidth to musical instruments has yet to be addressed. In this paper we conducte...

Is visual aesthetic sensitivity independent from intelligence, personality and creativity?

Studying Aesthetics in a Musical Interface Design Process Through 'Aesthetic Experience Prism'

This paper introduces ‘The Aesthetic Experience Prism’, a framework for studying how components of aesthetic experience materialize in the model’s of interaction of novel musical interfaces as well as how the role of aesthetics could be made more explicit in the processes of designing interaction for musical technologies. The Aesthetic Experience Prism makes use of Arthur Danto’s framework of a...