Emotion Primer Effects on Musical Perception, Intention, and Expressivity
Does how deeply one feels the emotion in music influence how they express that emotion while playing, and can it be seen in the brain?
In this study, we play four "emotion primers", music selected to elicit the four states of happy, tender, sadness, and fear, and ask musicians how they perceive the music to be (using arousal and valence scales), and how they feel in reaction to the music.
We then provide an emotionally neutral piano score, and ask pianists to express the same emotion they perceive in the primers.
EEG is used to compare the brain activity between listening and playing trials of the same primer to examine how much of what is felt is actually used during expression. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) provides objective measures to compare how expressivity changes.
We then provide an emotionally neutral piano score, and ask pianists to express the same emotion they perceive in the primers.
EEG is used to compare the brain activity between listening and playing trials of the same primer to examine how much of what is felt is actually used during expression. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) provides objective measures to compare how expressivity changes.
Is there a relationship between felt emotion and expressivity? Will we find two distinct groups of musicians at either end of the spectrum? Data collection is currently underway.
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