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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger +2 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect
Scientific Reports, 2021 Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics. [PDF]
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses. Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure.
Christensen, J.F., Calvo-Merino, B.
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A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements
Scientific Reports, 2023 Ekman famously contended that there are different channels of emotional expression (face, voice, body), and that emotion recognition ability confers an adaptive advantage to the individual.
Julia F. Christensen +7 more
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Dynamics of Functional Networks for Syllable and Word-Level Processing
Neurobiology of Language, 2023 Speech comprehension requires the ability to temporally segment the acoustic input for higher-level linguistic analysis. Oscillation-based approaches suggest that low-frequency auditory cortex oscillations track syllable-sized acoustic information and ...
Johanna M. Rimmele +4 more
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How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others
Scientific Reports, 2023 Music production is a universal phenomenon reaching far back into our past. Given its ubiquity, evolution theorists have postulated adaptive functions for music, such as strengthening in-group cohesion, intimidating enemies, or promoting child bonding ...
Eugen Wassiliwizky +2 more
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What Makes Babies Musical? Conceptions of Musicality in Infants and Toddlers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Despite major advances in research on musical ability in infants, relatively little attention has been paid to individual differences in general musicality in infants.
Verena Buren +3 more
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A perceptual glitch in serial perception generates temporal distortions
Scientific Reports, 2022 Precisely estimating event timing is essential for survival, yet temporal distortions are ubiquitous in our daily sensory experience. Here, we tested whether the relative position, duration, and distance in time of two sequentially-organized events ...
Franklenin Sierra +3 more
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A scalable and robust system for audience EEG recordings
Heliyon, 2023 The neural mechanisms that unfold when humans form a large group defined by an overarching context, such as audiences in theater or sports, are largely unknown and unexplored.
Georgios Michalareas +5 more
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Empirical Measurement of Aesthetic Experience of Music
CoRR, 2023 Chills or goosebumps, also called frisson, is a phenomenon that is often associated with an aesthetic experience e.g., music or some other ecstatic experience. The temporal and spatial cause of frisson in the brain has been one of the biggest mysteries of human nature.
Abhishek Gupta, C. M. Markan
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