Music‐evoked emotions: principles, brain correlates, and implications for therapy

2015/03/01 by Stefan Koelsch

paper · doi:10.1111/nyas.12684

Abstract

This paper describes principles underlying the evocation of emotion with music: evaluation, resonance, memory, expectancy/tension, imagination, understanding, and social functions. Each of these principles includes several subprinciples, and the framework on music‐evoked emotions emerging from these principles and subprinciples is supposed to provide a starting point for a systematic, coherent, and comprehensive theory on music‐evoked emotions that considers both reception and production of music, as well as the relevance of emotion‐evoking principles for music therapy.

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