Even violins can cry : Specifically vocal emotional behaviours also drive the perception of emotions in non-vocal music
(2021) In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376(1840).- Abstract
A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have done so using low-level acoustic parameters (pitch, loudness, speed) that, in fact, may not be processed by the listener in reference to human voice. Here, we take the opportunity of the recent availability of computational models that allow the simulation of three specifically vocal emotional behaviours: smiling, vocal tremor and vocal roughness. When applied to musical material, we find that these three acoustic manipulations trigger emotional perceptions that are remarkably similar to those observed on speech and scream sounds, and identical across musician and... (More)
A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have done so using low-level acoustic parameters (pitch, loudness, speed) that, in fact, may not be processed by the listener in reference to human voice. Here, we take the opportunity of the recent availability of computational models that allow the simulation of three specifically vocal emotional behaviours: smiling, vocal tremor and vocal roughness. When applied to musical material, we find that these three acoustic manipulations trigger emotional perceptions that are remarkably similar to those observed on speech and scream sounds, and identical across musician and non-musician listeners. Strikingly, this not only applied to singing voice with and without musical background, but also to purely instrumental material. This article is part of the theme issue 'Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)'.
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- author
- Bedoya, D. ; Arias, P. LU ; Rachman, L. ; Liuni, M. ; Canonne, C. ; Goupil, L. and Aucouturier, J. J.
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- emotions, music, voice
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- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- volume
- 376
- issue
- 1840
- article number
- 20200396
- publisher
- Royal Society Publishing
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- pmid:34719254
- scopus:85119968974
- ISSN
- 0962-8436
- DOI
- 10.1098/rstb.2020.0396
- language
- English
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- yes
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- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s).
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abstract = {{<p>A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have done so using low-level acoustic parameters (pitch, loudness, speed) that, in fact, may not be processed by the listener in reference to human voice. Here, we take the opportunity of the recent availability of computational models that allow the simulation of three specifically vocal emotional behaviours: smiling, vocal tremor and vocal roughness. When applied to musical material, we find that these three acoustic manipulations trigger emotional perceptions that are remarkably similar to those observed on speech and scream sounds, and identical across musician and non-musician listeners. Strikingly, this not only applied to singing voice with and without musical background, but also to purely instrumental material. This article is part of the theme issue 'Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)'. </p>}},
author = {{Bedoya, D. and Arias, P. and Rachman, L. and Liuni, M. and Canonne, C. and Goupil, L. and Aucouturier, J. J.}},
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keywords = {{emotions; music; voice}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1840}},
publisher = {{Royal Society Publishing}},
series = {{Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences}},
title = {{Even violins can cry : Specifically vocal emotional behaviours also drive the perception of emotions in non-vocal music}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0396}},
doi = {{10.1098/rstb.2020.0396}},
volume = {{376}},
year = {{2021}},
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