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Is there any evidence that context plays a role in the perception of the emotional feeling aroused by emotional musical expressions?. This work tries to answer the above question through a series of experiments where subjects were asked to label as positive or negative a set of emotionally assessed musical expressions played in combination with congruent or incongruent visual stimuli. The influence of context was measured through the valence. The results showed that the agreement on valence was always higher when melodies were played without context suggesting that music alone is more effective in raising emotional feeling than music combined either with positive or negative visual stimuli. Visual stimuli (either congruent or incongruent) significantly affect the perception of happy and sad melodies, whereas their effects are less severe and not significant for angry and fearful musical expressions.
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Esposito, A., Carbone, D., Riviello, M.T. (2009). Visual Context Effects on the Perception of Musical Emotional Expressions. In: Fierrez, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Esposito, A., Drygajlo, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M. (eds) Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication. BioID 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04391-8_10
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