Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia

Abstract Emotional communication in music depends on multiple attributes including psychoacoustic features and tonal system information, the latter of which is unique to music. The present study investigated whether congenital amusia, a lifelong disorder of musical processing, impacts sensitivity to...

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Autores principales:	Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu, Patrick C. M. Wong
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f9436969afd240d19141acf7c0580c812021-12-02T12:32:33ZSensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia10.1038/s41598-017-08005-x2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/f9436969afd240d19141acf7c0580c812017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08005-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Emotional communication in music depends on multiple attributes including psychoacoustic features and tonal system information, the latter of which is unique to music. The present study investigated whether congenital amusia, a lifelong disorder of musical processing, impacts sensitivity to musical emotion elicited by timbre and tonal system information. Twenty-six amusics and 26 matched controls made tension judgments on Western (familiar) and Indian (unfamiliar) melodies played on piano and sitar. Like controls, amusics used timbre cues to judge musical tension in Western and Indian melodies. While controls assigned significantly lower tension ratings to Western melodies compared to Indian melodies, thus showing a tonal familiarity effect on tension ratings, amusics provided comparable tension ratings for Western and Indian melodies on both timbres. Furthermore, amusics rated Western melodies as more tense compared to controls, as they relied less on tonality cues than controls in rating tension for Western melodies. The implications of these findings in terms of emotional responses to music are discussed.Cunmei JiangFang LiuPatrick C. M. WongNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Cunmei Jiang Fang Liu Patrick C. M. Wong Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
description	Abstract Emotional communication in music depends on multiple attributes including psychoacoustic features and tonal system information, the latter of which is unique to music. The present study investigated whether congenital amusia, a lifelong disorder of musical processing, impacts sensitivity to musical emotion elicited by timbre and tonal system information. Twenty-six amusics and 26 matched controls made tension judgments on Western (familiar) and Indian (unfamiliar) melodies played on piano and sitar. Like controls, amusics used timbre cues to judge musical tension in Western and Indian melodies. While controls assigned significantly lower tension ratings to Western melodies compared to Indian melodies, thus showing a tonal familiarity effect on tension ratings, amusics provided comparable tension ratings for Western and Indian melodies on both timbres. Furthermore, amusics rated Western melodies as more tense compared to controls, as they relied less on tonality cues than controls in rating tension for Western melodies. The implications of these findings in terms of emotional responses to music are discussed.
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title	Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
title_short	Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
title_full	Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
title_fullStr	Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
title_full_unstemmed	Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
title_sort	sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia
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publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/f9436969afd240d19141acf7c0580c81
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Sensitivity to musical emotion is influenced by tonal structure in congenital amusia

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