Development of Novel Musical Stimuli to Investigate the Perception of Musical Emotions in Individuals With Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies have examined the perception of musical emotion using excerpts from familiar music that includes highly expressed emotions to classify emotional choices. However, using familiar music to study musical emotions in people with acquired hearing loss could produce ambiguous results as to whether the emotional perception is due to previous experiences or listening to the current musical stimuli. To overcome this limitation, we developed new musical stimuli to study emotional perception without the effects of episodic memory.

Methods

A musician was instructed to compose five melodies with evenly distributed pitches around 1 kHz. The melodies were created to express the emotions of happy, sad, angry, tender, and neutral. To

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042730 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature