Cognitive and affective judgements of syncopated musical themes

This study investigated cognitive and emotional effects of syncopation, a feature of musical rhythm that produces expectancy violations in the listener by emphasising weak temporal locations and de-emphasising strong locations in metric structure. Stimuli consisting of pairs of unsync...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keller, Peter E., Schubert, Emery
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: University of Finance and Management in Warsaw 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259101/