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The role of semantic association and emotional contagion for the induction of emotion with music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Thomas Fritz  and
Stefan Koelsch
Thomas Fritz
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germanyfritz@cbs.mpg.dehttp://www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/fritz-2064
Stefan Koelsch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QU, United Kingdom. mail@stefan-koelsch.dehttp://stefan-koelsch.com/
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Abstract

We suggest that semantic association may be a further mechanism by which music may elicit emotion. Furthermore, we note that emotional contagion is not always an immediate process requiring little prior information processing; rather, emotional contagion contributing to music processing may constitute a more complex decoding mechanism for information inherent in the music, which may be subject to a time course of activation.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 579 - 580
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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