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How music fills our emotions and helps us keep time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Patricia V. Agostino
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Chronobiology, Department of Science and Technology, National University of Quilmes, Bernal B1876BXD, Buenos Aires, Argentinapagostino@unq.edu.arhttp://cronos.unq.edu.ar/
Guy Peryer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology – Music, Mind and Brain Group, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdomg.peryer@gold.ac.ukwww.goldsmiths.ac.uk/music-mind-brain/
Warren H. Meck
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Genome Sciences Research, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. meck@psych.duke.eduhttp://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/pn/faculty/meck

Abstract

Whether and how music is involved in evoking emotions is a matter of considerable debate. In the target article, Juslin & Västfjäll (J&V) argue that music induces a wide range of both basic and complex emotions that are shared with other stimuli. If such a link exists, it would provide a common basis for considering the interactions among music, emotion, timing, and time perception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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