Musicians Show Better Auditory and Tactile Identification of Emotions in Music

Sharp, Andréanne; Houde, Marie-Soleil; Bacon, Benoît A.; Champoux, François

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01976

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“…Although participants in the music training group became more accurate and faster at recognising the expressed emotion by the end of the study, so did participants in the control group without music, suggesting that such improvements could be merely a result of task repetition. Musicians' emotion processing advantage has been shown primarily for music excerpts 25,26,86 and speech prosody 10,39 , which involve the processing of sound features shared by music and speech 87,88 . Also, our results are in line with those of Correia et al 32 showing that musicians did not have an advantage when recognising emotions from facial expressions, and with recent evidence showing that musicians are not better than non-musicians in recognising emotions from people's movement and gestures 11 .…”

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“…Facial and body expressions are essential to musical performance and are used by musicians to communicate between co-performers and audiences 22 . Consequently, musical expertise has been found to have an enhanced effect on emotion processing for musical stimuli 23 – 25 . The current consensus is that musicians can better perceive and categorise musical emotions than non-musicians 26 .…”

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An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing

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Jicol

Ashwin

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Music involves different senses and is emotional in nature, and musicians show enhanced detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies and emotion recognition compared to non-musicians. However, whether musical training produces these enhanced abilities or if they are innate within musicians remains unclear. Thirty-one adult participants were randomly assigned to a music training, music listening, or control group who all completed a one-hour session per week for 11 weeks. The music training group received piano training, the music listening group listened to the same music, and the control group did their homework. Measures of audio-visual temporal discrepancy, facial expression recognition, autistic traits, depression, anxiety, stress and mood were completed and compared from the beginning to end of training. ANOVA results revealed that only the music training group showed a significant improvement in detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies compared to the other groups for both stimuli (flash-beep and face-voice). However, music training did not improve emotion recognition from facial expressions compared to the control group, while it did reduce the levels of depression, stress and anxiety compared to baseline. This RCT study provides the first evidence of a causal effect of music training on improved audio-visual perception that goes beyond the music domain.

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An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing

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Ashwin

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“…Vibroacoustics is increasingly used to enhance the affective and emotional experience of music for listeners. 12,13,44 In line with this, providing tactile stimulation may enhance the positive emotions of preferred music and increase the likelihood that topdown affective and motivation mechanisms would attenuate negative aspects of the pain experience such as its intensity or unpleasantness. In the growing search for non-pharmacological interventions for acute and chronic pain in real-world situations (e.g.…”

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“…Firstly, we assumed that tactile stimulation by itself can induce emotion in listeners. This assumption was based on a study by Sharp et al 44 who demonstrated that both musicians and non-musicians were able to recognize emotions via tactile stimulation above chance for music that induced emotions of happiness and fear. It may be worthwhile in future studies to measure the characteristics of the tactile stimulation extracted from music and determine which characteristic may modulate pain experience as done for the acoustic properties of music.…”

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Feeling the music: The feel and sound of songs attenuate pain

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Johnstone

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British Journal of Pain

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Background Extensive research has demonstrated that music and touch can separately attenuate perceived pain intensity. However, little research has investigated how auditory and tactile stimulation can synergistically enhance pain attenuation by music. In the current study, we investigated whether tactile stimulation can enhance music-induced analgesia for noxious force stimulation on the fingertip. Methods We systematically applied force to 34 listeners’ fingertips to induce pain. We then compared the force measurement (in Newton) that gave rise to the same perceived moderate pain intensity when listeners were presented their self-selected liked or disliked song with auditory-only, tactile-only and auditory-tactile stimulation. Higher force indicated less perceived pain. The tactile stimulation were low-frequency modulations extracted from the songs and presented as vibrations on the wrist. Results The results showed a significant interaction between song preference and stimulation condition. Listeners had higher force measurements at the same moderate pain for their liked compared to disliked song only in the auditory-tactile condition. They also had higher force measurements for their liked song with auditory-tactile stimulation compared to the other remaining conditions except for the liked song with auditory-only stimulation. Conclusions The addition of tactile stimulation enhanced music-induced analgesia which reduced subjective pain intensity. The findings suggest that combined auditory and tactile stimulation may increase the affective content of self-selected preferred music, which may stimulate affective and motivation mechanisms which inhibit pain transmission.

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“…[16], [17], [18], [19]), other studies found an effect of musical training on musical emotion recognition accuracy (e.g. [5], [20], [21], [22], [23]). This calls for more research on the musical expertise of the listeners as a possible predictor for emotion decoding abilities in music.…”

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Music Emotion Recognition: Intention of Composers-Performers Versus Perception of Musicians, Non-Musicians, and Listening Machines

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Pauwels

2022

IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.

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This paper investigates to which extent state of the art machine learning methods are effective in classifying emotions in the context of individual musical instruments, and how their performances compare with musically trained and untrained listeners. To address these questions we created a novel dataset of 391 classical and acoustic guitar excerpts annotated along four emotions (aggressiveness, relaxation, happiness and sadness) with three emotion intensity levels (low, medium, high), according to the intended emotion of 30 professional guitarists acting as both composers and performers. A first experiment investigated listeners' perception involving 8 professional guitarists and 8 non-musicians. Results showed that the emotions intended by a composer-performer are not always well recognized by listeners, and in general not with the same intensity. Listeners' identification accuracy was proportional to the intensity with which an emotion was expressed. Emotions were better recognized by musicians than by listeners without musical background. Such differences between the two groups were found for different intensity levels of the intended emotions. A second experiment investigated machine listening performance based on a transfer learning method. To compare machine and human identification accuracies fairly, we derived a fifth, "ambivalent" category from the machine listening output categories (i.e., excerpts rated with more than one predominant emotion). Results showed that the machine perception of emotions matched or even exceeded musicians' performance for all emotions except "relaxation". The differences between the intended and human-perceived emotions, as well as those due to musical training, suggest that a device or application involving a music emotion recognition system should take into account the characteristics of the users (in particular their musical expertise) as well as their roles (e.g., composers, performers, listeners). For developers this translates into the use of datasets annotated by different categories of annotators, whose role and musical expertise will match the characteristics of the end users. Such results are particularly relevant to the creation of emotionally-aware smart musical instruments.

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Musicians Show Better Auditory and Tactile Identification of Emotions in Music

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing

An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing

Feeling the music: The feel and sound of songs attenuate pain

Music Emotion Recognition: Intention of Composers-Performers Versus Perception of Musicians, Non-Musicians, and Listening Machines

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