Tuomas Eerola
My research interests are divided into music cognition, music and emotions, music and movement, and music and culture. The first one relates to my past work in music perception, and the second topic, emotion and music, is something that I currently spent the most of my research time on. However, all topic areas do overlap.
Personal blog: http://musiikkipsykologia.wordpress.com/
Address: Palace Green, Dept. of Music, DH1 3RL, Durham, UK
Personal blog: http://musiikkipsykologia.wordpress.com/
Address: Palace Green, Dept. of Music, DH1 3RL, Durham, UK
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emotions is a typical example with a major focus on
the pleasure that can be derived from listening to music.
Pleasure, however, is not the only emotion to be induced
and the mechanisms behind its elicitation are far from
understood. There are also mechanisms related to
arousal and activation that are both less differentiated
and at the same time more complex than the assumed
mechanisms that trigger basic emotions. It is imperative,
therefore, to investigate what pleasurable and mood modifying effects music can have on human beings
in real-time listening situations. This e-book is an
attempt to answer these questions. Revolving around the
specificity of music experience in terms of perception,
emotional reactions, and aesthetic assessment, it presents new hypotheses, theoretical claims as well as new empirical data which contribute to a better understanding of the functions of the brain as related to musical experience.