Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Objective Depression is a state of aversion to activity and low mood that affects behaviour,
thoughts, feelings and sense of well-being. Moreover, the individual depression trait is …

This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have
distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations …

The aim of the present study is to determine which acoustic components of harmonic
consonance and dissonance influence automatic responses in a simple cognitive task. In a …

Music is exclusively comprised of auditory stimuli. Over the years, as to the Behavior
Analysis research in the context of music education, the teaching of auditory musical stimuli …

This registered report considers how emotion induced in an auditory modality (music) can
influence affective evaluations of visual stimuli (words). Specifically, it seeks to determine …

The classification of major and minor musical stimuli along five dichotomous scales (happy–
sad, pleasant–unpleasant, up–down, light–dark, and warm–cold colors) was investigated in …

Previous studies using an affective priming paradigm have shown that valenced chords (eg,
consonant–positive; dissonant–negative) facilitate the evaluation of similarly valenced target …

The relationship between fluid intelligence and preference for major–minor musical mode
was investigated in a sample of 80 university students. Intelligence was assessed by the …

The emotional valence of a given stimulus is more quickly identified when such stimulus is
preceded by another stimulus with a congruent valence (eg, a positive word preceded by …