Abstract:Listening to music is an enjoyable activity for most individuals, yet the musical factors that relate to aesthetic experiences are not completely understood. In the present paper, we investigate whether the absolute tuning of music implicitly influences listener evaluations of music, as well as whether listeners can explicitly categorize musical sounds as “in tune” versus “out of tune” based on conventional tuning standards. In Experiment 1, participants rated unfamiliar musical excerpts, which were either tun… Show more
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