Interest in the study of emotions in education has grown in recent years. Some of our
modern challenges, such as constantly adapting to new scenarios or the need for team work …

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has
generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic …

Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective
processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time …

This work advances the music emotion recognition state-of-the-art by proposing novel
emotionally-relevant audio features. We reviewed the existing audio features implemented …

Basic Emotion theory has had a tremendous influence on the affective sciences, including
music psychology, where most researchers have assumed that music expressivity is …

This article is based on the assumption of musical power to change the listener's mood. The
paper studies the outcome of two experiments on the regulation of emotional states in a …

Expectation is crucial for our enjoyment of music, yet the underlying generative mechanisms
remain unclear. While sensory models derive predictions based on local acoustic …

The aim of this contribution is to broaden the concept of musical meaning from an abstract
and emotionally neutral cognitive representation to an emotion-integrating description that is …

Expressive performance is an indispensable part of music making. When playing a piece,
expert performers shape various parameters (tempo, timing, dynamics, intonation …